Monday, March 16, 2015


New Zealand radar. (click here) 

There are three cyclones visible. Pam is on the east coast of New Zealand. Tides are high, some evacuation in anticipated flooding, but, most of the country is fine at this point. Pam is expected to continue it's path off shore with diminishing effects onshore.

The cyclone Ola is at Australia's northeast coast.

It appears the system off the southern coast of Australia is a tropical depression without a label.
  
March 15, 2015
By Georgina Mitchell
 
..."It will be a long time (click here) until this place is back to normal," Mr Ang posted on Twitter.
While the worst of the storm lasted for just twelve hours, the cyclone has left a lasting mark on the people and infrastructure of Vanuatu, Mr Ang told Fairfax Media while he queued for petrol on the Kumul Highway.
"It was quite scary," he said. "Where we were, we didn't even get the worst of it.
"It sounded like a velociraptor shrieking and all we sort of saw was black, things [were] just banging. There's devastation everywhere... we got hit hard, but drive into town and everyone's been hit so much harder," Mr Ang said....