Turners and Growers warehouse fully engulfed in flames. Warehouse security advised unknown persons lit the 🔥 to clear grass invacant lot next door.
Stupid stupid decision. Stacks of wooden pallets in T&G compound right up against the adjoining fence. The fire is now in the warehouse proper, and there have been several explosions heard.
Severe TC Mal cat3 was located by radar about 155km southwest of Nadi at 6am this morning. The eye stayed offshore sparing coastal communities the worst of the winds.
Currenty damaging gales 85 kph with gusts 120 kph still affecting southwest Viti Levu from Ba to Nadi to Sigatoka and Coral Coast to Korolevu, and also off shore islands such as Mamanucas, southern Yasawas, Vatulele and Kadavu.
TC Mal is moving away to the southeast very quickly (around 30kph+) and is forecast to weaken to cat2 this afternoonand cat 1 tonight, so weather is expected to improve quickly also over the course of today. Tomorrow likely to be a nice day with sunshine across the west.
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Here's the radar imagery for the period from 3pm to 4pm. The storms along the Hibiscus Coast and around Taveuni are clearly evident. Not much to see around eastern and inland Viti Levu, but this is because the Nausori Radar is still out of service - its been well over a year since this radar went down and there is no sign of it returning to service any time soon. But the fact that we can see toe tops of these storms as weak echoes on the Labasa radar suggests they are pretty high since the curvature of the Earth means the radar beam disappears above the cloud tops at distances of 150km or thereabouts.
For those who think the earth is flat, see me after,,,
