Tropical Cyclone Wati is moving southeast towards the Southern Cook Islands, with conditions expected to deteriorate over the coming days according to the Cook Islands Meteorological Service.<\/p>\n
Wati currently has maximum sustained winds of around 75 km\/h with gusts reaching 100 km\/h. The system is moving southeast at around 14 km\/h.<\/p>\n
On its current track, Tropical Cyclone Wati is expected to be approximately:<\/p>\n
530 km north-northwest of Aitutaki by 10am on Saturday 17 October.<\/p>\n
100 km north of Aitutaki by 10am on Sunday, 18 October.<\/p>\n
Aitutaki residents have been told to pay close attention to official updates as the system approaches.<\/p>\n
For Aitutaki, fresh to strong winds of 35-45 km\/h with gusts up to 80 km\/h.<\/p>\n
Winds are expected to strengthen to damaging gale force from early Sunday morning, averaging 75 km\/h, with gusts up to 100 km\/h.<\/p>\n
Cloudy periods with showers, increasing to periods of heavy rain and squally thunderstorms from tomorrow, Saturday.<\/p>\n
Rough seas with moderate to heavy swells. High seas are expected from Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
For the rest of the Southern Cook Islands, moderate to fresh southeast winds, strengthening from later tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Strong winds averaging up to 45 km\/h, with gusts up to 90 km\/h.<\/p>\n
Cloudy periods with showers, increasing to periods of heavy rain and squally thunderstorms from tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Seas becoming very rough, with moderate to heavy swells expected from early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Wati is moving southeast towards the Southern Cook Islands, with conditions expected to deteriorate over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-634867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634867","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=634867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}