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Cyclone Ella warning remain in force for Niuas [1]

Fua'amotu, Tonga

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 - 16:21.  Updated on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 - 16:22.

A Tropical Cyclone warning remains in force for the Niuas today, Wednesday 10 May 2017 as Tropical Cyclone Ella (category 1) is expected to lie north-northwest of Niuafo'ou tonight.

The latest Tropical Cyclone Advisory (no. 8) [2] issued by the Fua'amotu Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre at 3:00pm today 10 May 2017, reported that Tropical Cyclone Ella (1) was located near latitude 14.5 south, longitude 174.5 west or about 179km north-northwest of Niuatoputapu or 169km northeast of Niuafo'ou at 1:00pm this afternoon. The system is moving west at about 4 knots (8km/hr).

On its current track Tropical Cyclone Ella is expected to lie about 115km north-northwest of Niuafo'ou or 280km west-northwest of Niuatoputapu at 01:00am tomorrow morning.

The full Tonga weather forecast is available at: Tropical Cyclone Ella Advisory (no. 8) [2]

Meanwhile, the outlook for all of Tonga for Friday is for fresh to strong east to southeast winds. Cloudy periods with isolated showers.

Tonga [3]
Tropical Cyclone Ella [4]
Niuafo'ou [5]
Niuatoputapu [6]
Weather [7]
Source URL:https://matangitonga.to/2017/05/10/cyclone-ella-warning-remain-force-niuas

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[1] https://matangitonga.to/2017/05/10/cyclone-ella-warning-remain-force-niuas [2] https://www.met.gov.to/forecast/html/FCST_BULLETIN.html [3] https://matangitonga.to/tag/tonga?page=1 [4] https://matangitonga.to/tag/tropical-cyclone-ella?page=1 [5] https://matangitonga.to/tag/niuafoou?page=1 [6] https://matangitonga.to/tag/niuatoputapu?page=1 [7] https://matangitonga.to/topic/weather?page=1