{"id":17099,"date":"2026-04-07T05:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17099"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:15:34","slug":"tropical-cyclone-in-south-pacific-could-be-headed-to-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17099","title":{"rendered":"Tropical cyclone in South Pacific could be headed to NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MetService says a tropical cyclone could potentially head towards New Zealand within the next week.<\/p>\n<p>There are now two tropical cyclones in the South Pacific &#8211; Cyclone Maila in the Solomon Sea and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/591590\/fiji-schools-will-remain-closed-as-tropical-cyclone-vaianu-intensifies\">Cyclone Vaianu<\/a>\u00a0to the east of Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<p>MetService forecaster Louis Fernando said the Category 2 Cyclone Vaianu is gaining in speed and power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is looking like it will intensify to a Category 3 either later today or into tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the models are indicating that perhaps towards the weekend the remnants at least of the cyclone could affect parts of the North Island.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cyclone Vaianu is currently tracking between Vanuatu and Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>MetService had already issued an orange heavy rain warning for the Northland region from 10pm Monday till 4pm Tuesday as well as a strong wind watch starting 3am Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain watches are also in place for Auckland, the Coromandel and Bay of Plenty.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MetService says a tropical cyclone could potentially head towards New Zealand within the next week. There are now two tropical cyclones in the South Pacific &#8211; Cyclone Maila in the Solomon Sea and\u00a0Cyclone Vaianu\u00a0to the east of Vanuatu. MetService forecaster Louis Fernando said the Category 2 Cyclone Vaianu is gaining in speed and power. &#8220;It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17101,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099\/revisions\/17101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}