{"id":689,"date":"2020-12-16T05:20:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T05:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=689"},"modified":"2020-12-16T05:20:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T05:20:46","slug":"fiji-meteorological-services-predicts-weather-to-worsen-from-tonight-as-tc-yasa-continues-to-move-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Meteorological Services predicts weather to worsen from tonight as TC Yasa continues to move closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>Prepare for the weather to worsen from tonight as the Tropical Cyclone Yasa continues to move closer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Acting Director Fiji Meteorological Services, Terry Atalifo says this is especially for the Western part of the group as the category five system was located about 440km west-northwest of Yasawa-i-Rara or about 500km northwest of Nadi at midday today.<\/p>\n<p>Atalifo says the wind strength for TC Yasa they are anticipating is around 220kmph which is very destructive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-advert\">\n<div class=\"rectange-banner-container\">\n<div class=\"clear-fix\"><strong><em>\u201cYou know with that kind of wind strength it\u2019s going to do a lot of damage to infrastructure, to houses and it can even uproot very big trees so this is a very intense system.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In terms of rain, Atalifo says they are looking at 100mm to 250mm of rain in the next 24-hour period and in a worst-case scenario it\u2019s expected to be 15mm of rain per hour.<\/p>\n<p>He says while flooding is expected, people living in coastal areas should be prepared for storm surges.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThe waves we are expected to generate out of the system we are looking at 7 meters and even worse 15 meters high and that will mean we also anticipate coast inundation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Atalifo adds that the other worry is that the system is moving very slowly at 11 kilometers per hour.<\/p>\n<p>TC Yasa was located about 440km west-northwest of Yasawa-i-Ra or 395km northwest of Nadi at midday.<\/p>\n<p>Close to its center the cyclone is expected to have average winds up to 220km\/hr with momentary gusts to 315km\/hr.<\/p>\n<p>TC Yasa is currently moving east at about 12km\/hr.<\/p>\n<p>A flash flood alert remains in force for all low lying areas and areas adjacent to small streams along Komave to Navua Town, and Rewa.<\/p>\n<p>The alert is also for Rewa to Rakiraki in Viti Levu.<\/p>\n<p>A flash flood alert is also in force for all low lying areas and areas adjacent to small streams of Vanua Levu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-FIJI MET\/FBC TV<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepare for the weather to worsen from tonight as the Tropical Cyclone Yasa continues to move closer. Acting Director Fiji Meteorological Services, Terry Atalifo says this is especially for the Western part of the group as the category five system was located about 440km west-northwest of Yasawa-i-Rara or about 500km northwest of Nadi at midday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news","tag-tc-yasa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}