{"id":707,"date":"2020-12-16T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=707"},"modified":"2020-12-16T19:25:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T19:25:02","slug":"tc-yasa-vanua-levu-under-severe-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"TC YASA: Vanua Levu under severe threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>Vanua Levu is now under severe threat of Tropical Cyclone Yasa as it continues to maintain its movement towards Fiji.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fiji Meteorological Service forecaster Steven Meke says the rest of the country should also continue to prepare as the category five storm is expected to impact most of Fiji.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fbcnews.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ap-track-17-dec-1280x720-1.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"307\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meke says the slow movement of TC Yasa makes its more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Cyclone Yasa was located about 270 kilometres Northwest of Yasawa-i-Rara or 340km Northwest of Nadi and 330km South-Southwest of Rotuma at 12am today.<\/p>\n<p>Close to its centre the cyclone is expected to have average winds up to 240 km\/hr with momentary gusts to 345 km\/hr.<\/p>\n<p>The cyclone is moving East-Southeast at about 15 km\/hr.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>FIJI MET\/FBC\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanua Levu is now under severe threat of Tropical Cyclone Yasa as it continues to maintain its movement towards Fiji. Fiji Meteorological Service forecaster Steven Meke says the rest of the country should also continue to prepare as the category five storm is expected to impact most of Fiji. Meke says the slow movement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59,220,215],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news","tag-featured","tag-fiji-news","tag-tc-yasa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}