Fiji impacted by Tropical Cyclone Zena just weeks after devastation of Tropical Cyclone Winston

Source: news.co.au

RESIDENTS and holidaymakers on Fiji’s Coral Coast are going into lockdown with tropical cyclone Zena expected to pass just south of the island between midnight tonight and 3am Thursday.

Fiji Bureau of Meteorology said the Category 3 cyclone was currently 535km west of Nadi and strengthening and with it would bring gale force winds with gusts up to 170km/h and heavy rainfall.


Tourists at the Outrigger Resort on Fiji’s Coral Coast were moved from beachside bures to higher ground this morning as staff boarded up restaurants and enacted the emergency management plan.

Other guests are hastily rearranging travel plans with many unable to get to Nadi airport after roads were cut by flooding.

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