AFP news.com.au December 28, 2019 11:29am Tropical Cyclone Harold will scrape Tonga after hammering parts of Fiji and Vanuatu. A storm system tracking near Fiji has officially been upgraded to a tropical cyclone.
This could be the second tropical cyclone to hit Fiji in just the past few weeks. With average hurricane force winds over 170 km/h and gusts up to 240 km/h, the cyclone caused widespread destruction across the Central, Eastern, and Western divisions in Fiji. Tropical cyclone (TC) Harold, a category 4 cyclone, struck Fiji on 8 and 9 April 2020. Damaging winds and flooding rain are possible impacts in … animated enhanced infrared satellite imagery shows deep convection wrapping tightly about a cloud-covered and obscured llcc.
Cyclone Sarai was declared a Category 1 cyclone at 3am on Friday morning. Many small and remote islands lay in the direct path of TC Harold. On December 28, 2019, the Category 2 Tropical Storm Sarai passed just 60 miles south of Fiji. jtwc summary: tropical cyclone 25p (harold), located approximately 149 nm west of suva, fiji, has tracked east-southeastward at 17 knots over the past six hours. Almost 2,000 people are taking shelter across Fiji as Tropical Cyclone Sarai continues to hurl heavy rain and wind across the Pacific nation. It is estimated that more than 182,500 people in
Tropical Cyclone Sarai has lashed Fiji with 140km/h winds forcing hundreds of people to evacuate and flights to be cancelled.