On February 20th, 2016, tropical cyclone (TC) Winston, a category 5 cyclone, hit Fiji, affecting more than half the population of the country and leaving behind damages worth more than 30% of the GDP of the country. The health sector alone suffered damages and losses amounting to FJ$13.9...
She said that 434 schools sustained various levels of damage from tropical cyclone Winston across Fiji. "As we progress into the third year post-tropical cyclone Winston, a significant amount of work has been done. Some projects are in process as we have had to spread the budget over three ...
cash transfersdevelopmentPacifichumanitarian responseIn 2016, following Tropical Cyclone (TC) Winston, Fiji became the First Pacific Island country to channel post-disaster assistance through its existing social sdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3143459Mansur, Aisha...
In 2016, tropical cyclone Winston, the most intense tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere on record, battered Fiji, killing 44 people.
Winston is forecast to make another sharp turn in the week ahead, but the cyclone may stay far enough west to spare Tonga for a third impact. (INTERACTIVE:Tropical Cyclone Winston Forecast Path) Projected Path and Intensity 2. Aid groups are already on these islands cleaning up from the firs...
At least 20 people have lost their lives due to severe tropical cyclone Winston, authorities announced Monday. Akapusi Tuifagalele, director of the National Disaster Management Office, confirmed the latest nationwide death toll. Meanwhile, officials confirmed to the government- owned Fiji ...
Responding originally to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016, the Pacific Media Centre embarked on the Bearing Witness journalism project by sending two postgraduate students to Viti Levu ... D Robie,J Marbrook - 《Asia Pacific Media Educator》 ...
Yasa is the fifth storm worldwide to reach category 5 strength in 2020 and the second to do so in the South Pacific. (Tropical Cyclone Harold hit Vanuatu in April.) Only one previous category 5 storm on record has made landfall in Fiji: Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016. ...
Tropical Cyclone Winston slammed into Fiji as the strongest such storm ever observed in the southern hemisphere, and one of the strongest in the world.By Andrew Freedman on February 20, 2016 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Flipboard Radar image of Tropical Cyclone Winston at time...
We delimit nearshore storm waves generated by category-5 Tropical Cyclone Winston in February 2016 on the northern Fijian island of Taveuni. Wave magnitudes (heights and flow velocities) are hindcast by inverse modelling, based on the characteristics of large carbonate boulders (maximum 33.8 m(3),...