{"id":308458,"date":"2026-03-01T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308458\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:12:09","slug":"urmil-no-longer-a-cyclone-should-avoid-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308458\/","title":{"rendered":"Urmil no longer a cyclone, should avoid NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo: NZ Metservice\n<\/p>\n

New Zealand’s metservice says former Tropical Cyclone Urmil transferred into an extra-tropical low about midnight on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The remnants of the system should lie to the east of Aotearoa.<\/p>\n

“It should continue to move southeast as an extra-tropical system today and pose no impact to New Zealand,” the service said.<\/p>\n

The Fiji Metservice said associated rainbands remain over the Fiji group.<\/p>\n

Urmil caused flooding and power outages at the weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Occasional rain, which may be heavy at times, is still expected, with a heavy rain warning issued for the whole Fiji group early on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

There is still an elevated risk of flooding, particularly in the Western Division and more so during high tide periods.<\/p>\n

“Residents in flood-prone areas are urged to remain vigilant,” Fiji Met said.<\/p>\n

“While conditions there are forecast to gradually ease, unsettled weather will likely persist until Wednesday.”<\/p>\n

As of 8am Monday local time, a flash flood warning for Vitilevu and a flash flood alert for Vanualevu remained in place.<\/p>\n

A flood warning was in force for low-lying flood-prone areas near Nakauvadra River (Rakiraki town), Naseyani at Yaqara River, Tavua River and the flood plains of Ba River.<\/p>\n

An alert is in place for low-lying flood-prone areas near Nadi River, Nawaka River, and Tuva River in Nadroga.<\/p>\n

Schools are closed in Fiji on Monday.<\/p>\n

Tonga’s meteorological service said warnings for heavy rains, flash floods and strong to gale force winds remain in place throughout the kingdom.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the New Zealand Metservice said there is a risk of a tropical cyclone developing in the Coral Sea during Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: NZ Metservice New Zealand’s metservice says former Tropical Cyclone Urmil transferred into an extra-tropical low about midnight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-308458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}