🚨#Breaking: Tropical #CycloneJASPER is now Category2️⃣ and is expected to become Severe Category 3 tonight/overnight as it rapidly strengthens.
🌀Currently: 🇸🇧Offshore from #SolomonIslands.
⚠️Heading: ↙️SW towards #Queensland #Australia in 4 to 6 days from now.
There is no threat to New Zealand.
#TCJasper
📽️It's the last Friday of #November 2023 and this is how it looks in the first part of the world saying hello to Friday evening.
(6pm here in #NewZealand anyway!) 🍻🌷🌅
Have a great weekend 😊
🚨🌀Severe Category3️⃣ Tropical #CycloneMal is swiping the south western corner of #Fiji right now.
However it's fair to say (based on the maps at least) that Fiji has dodged a bullet for the most part. #MAL
Current situation:
🇳🇿8:30am NZDT
🇫🇯7:30am FIJI
⚠️🌀💨Despite #CycloneMal finally reaching severe Category3️⃣ status overnight, the centre of the storm has remained offshore to the west.
Here's the next 6 hour wind projection, as the sun rises shortly over #Fiji.
🚨🌀🌪️🇫🇯Here's the next 6 hour high resolution wind projection for the core/centre of #CycloneMal. Our high resolution data is powered by IBM. It's a close call for #Nadi westwards but it's good to see the centre so far sticking westwards. We'll update this wind animation again after midnight as it may still move closer to Viti Levu.
www.WeatherWatch.co.nz
🌀☄️#Mal looks like a #meteor burning through the atmosphere over the next week ahead!
🎥This animation shows Tropical Cyclone #MAL as it moves through the tropics, enters the sub-tropics and falls apart over the next 8 days as it runs into colder conditions and high pressure.
🚨🇫🇯🌀💧Next 48 hours rainfall over #Fiji (from the Australian model) showing 150mm to 200+ over the northern ranges of #VitiLevu.
⚠️Rainfall may go higher, follow official warnings from Fiji Met Service.
One positive in the modelling is that #TCMal is expected to track by fairly quickly overnight/Wednesday AM.
Tropical Cyclone #MAL continues to strengthen, with "Severe" Category 3 expected in the coming hours as it approaches #FIJI from the north-west (tracking SE). It's possible winds at the centre may reach 140km/h, gusting 170km/h overnight tonight. For now though, those worst winds still look to be offshore to the west of Nadi overnight. It may still track further eastwards towards Viti Levu.
🚨🌀Category1️⃣Tropical Cyclone #MAL.
Latest tracking shows #Nadi westwards most at risk. However it's important to realise the wind from this storm is still developing & may yet fan out further over #VitiLevu, especially if tracking changes. Heavy Rain looks likely regardless of precise tracking of #TCMal. #Fiji
⛈️Good news for #Queensland right now with widespread #thunderstorms⚡️stretching north to south through the state's dry interior.
Cooler easterlies keep the coastline storm free but those storms form well inland where those winds #MeetTheHeat!
🦘6pm AEST
🦘7pm AEDT
🥝9pm NZDT
🌀🌡️Yesterday a lot of people in northern & eastern NZ talked of using heat pumps, fires and heaters again ... today as the low falls apart, there's a sub-tropical feed coming in and with the sun out for more people it's significantly warmer!
Windows open / fresh air 🪟😊
🌀👋Today is the last day the northern low pressure system will be so prominent. Tomorrow it entirely falls apart.
See those thunderstorms in the Tasman Sea? A new low is forming there.
By Wednesday afternoon the northern low has GONE & the new western low MOVES IN.
#Spring!
📽️🛰️🌀Past 6 hours satellite imagery (water vapour). You can clearly see the swirl at the centre as the low has been deepening / getting better organised today.
☔️Broken up / patchy rain clouds. But the slow movement of the low means some areas may have slow moving heavy rain.
🌀A large Low is deepening just north of #NewZealand.
💪High pressure over the South Island will stall this low offshore for the next two days.
⬅️Prolonged windy easterlies, peaking tonight &/or Monday for most in the north.
🔎Track your peak wind/rain at RuralWeather.co.nz
Follow MetService for severe weather watches and warnings - these may exceed your local wind and rain forecasts. These are on our website and MetService.com.
🏉🏟️Weather in #Paris for the #RWCFinal...
☔️Sky Conditions: Patchy rain & showers moving through
↗️Wind: Fairly breezy Sou'Wester
🌡️Temperature: Around 14c
Next 72 hours show a new sub-tropical low rapidly deepening, then weakening again as it moves into northern #NewZealand and into a big belt of high pressure.
🌀A bit of a wobble overnight saw #LOLA shift closer to #Vanuatu's capital #Vila - but the good news today is that #TCLola has weakened further and is no longer a "severe" TC. As of now it is Category 2 and continuing to weaken as it heads towards #NewCaledonia.
🚨🌀The worst of Severe Tropical Cyclone #LOLA is now gradually moving away from #Vanuatu. However damaging gales still remain in exposed areas, plus heavy rain & thunderstorms across this evening - slowly easing overnight.
Placement of Category3️⃣ #TCLola as of:
🇳🇿#7pm NZDT
🇻🇺#5pm Vanuatu
🚨🌀Severe #TCLola is showing signs of weakening. It's been tracking at near human walking speed over #Vanuatu for nearly 24 hours now.
The good news? It's moving offshore to the west now - & it's going to speed up as it moves away & weaken rapidly.
🇳🇿4pm NZDT
🇻🇺2pm Vanuatu
