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They were stronger than usual (we actually had several cyclones this year if we count all of them) so I'm assuming that's what OP referred to. I still slept through one of them without even noticing it so nowhere as strong as Catarina.
This month's winds reached 2/3 the speed of Catarina.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Rio_Grande_do_Sul_floods