Category Cyclone Alert

Category 3 Cyclone Victor Passing Between Cooks And Niue

Photo: Fiji Met Service There’s an active convergence zone slowly moving around the Cook Islands, with Palmerston to continue to experience winds up to 100 kilometres per hour.   A gale warning remains in place for Palmerston and a strong…

Cat 3 Cyclone Ula maintains strength as it hits Fiji after battering Tonga’s northern island

PHOTO: Homes have been destroyed by Cyclone Ula. (Facebook: Tusi Finikaso)   The first tropical cyclone for 2016 is lashing Fiji’s outlying islands, after causing destruction in parts of Tonga.   Category three Cyclone Ula is bringing 150-kilometre-an-hour winds, strong…

Cyclone Tuni batters Samoa

Samoa is waking up from its overnight battering as Tropical Cyclone Tuni hit the Pacific nation.   The high-powered weather system dumped about 100 millimetres of rain and has brought strong winds to the popular tourist hotspot.   Local forecasters…

Cyclone number 2 kills at least 13 in Socotra island, Yemen

Winds and rain from the second rare cyclone to hit Yemen in two weeks have killed 13 people, including three children, on Yemen’s Socotra island, the fisheries minister said on Tuesday.   Cyclone Megh slammed into Socotra on Sunday with…

Super cyclonic storm Chapala strikes Yemen at about 18:00 GMT on 1st November 2015

Super cyclonic storm Chapala struck Yemen as a severe cyclonic storm at about 18:00 GMT on 1 November. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Center suggest that the point of landfall was near 13.3…

Major Cyclone ravages Yemeni island, heads for LNG plant, Qaeda-run city

A rare tropical cyclone packing hurricane-force winds killed three people and injured scores on the exotic Yemeni island of Socotra on Monday and then headed towards a gas terminal and an Al Qaeda-controlled town on the mainland.   The World…

Cyclone Chapala will drop 7 years of rain on Yemen

Courtesy of Joshua Baker War-torn Yemen was braced last night for one of the worst storms ever recorded in the area, with seven years’ worth of normal rainfall expected to fall and winds likely to reach 105mph.   The category 4…

Super Cyclone Chapala; 33-feet waves; wind at 170kmph; Oman, Yemen on alert

In its noon update, the Oman Meteorology Department has warned of waves reaching heights of nearly 33 feet and wind speeds accelerating to 170kmph as Cyclone Chapala hits Yemen’s Socotra Island.   Oman is also bearing the brunt of the…

Rare And Destructive Cyclone Chapala Rapidly Intensifies To A Category 4 Storm In Arabian Sea

Cyclone Chapala could become the strongest on record in the Arabian Sea and may make an unprecedented landfall at hurricane strength along the coast of Yemen or southwest Oman in the days ahead.   Chapala rapidly intensified and is estimated…