Rarotonga weather

2022 - 7 - 15

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'Prepare to evacuate' - wild NZ weather now lashing Rarotonga (1 News)

Roads and a restaurant in the Cook Islands have been badly damaged as strong waves batter coastal areas.

"Over southern coastal areas, expect sea flooding of coastal areas especially during high tides." The Cook Islands Meteorological Service issued several warnings for southern areas on Thursday for coastal inundation, strong waves, and high winds. "The sea swell on the southern and southern corners of the island has caused quite the disturbance," a post from Infrastructure Cook Islands on Facebook read.

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Storm that hit New Zealand now battering Rarotonga, warnings in ... (Stuff.co.nz)

The Cook Islands Meteorological Service has put a damaging heavy swell warning in place for the open waters of the Southern Cook Islands. A strong wind warning ...

And those articles are free. He said weather was now calmer and people living near the south coast were assessing the damage from the past two nights. “The next morning we went to check our room again and it looked like all the outside furniture were inside our room. Swells of up to 4.5 metres were recorded at the south coast of Rarotonga, with waves coming ashore at the Queen’s representatives’ official residence and elsewhere along the coast. “The Government stands ready to support households in need with Contingency Support Funds that were established a few years ago during the Avatiu floods,” he said. It said the swells were being driven by a high pressure system pushing up from New Zealand and may continue for the next two to three days.

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