This looks like storm surge.
I wondered if #CycloneGabrielle would perhaps be the first cyclone in living memory to arrive at close to full cyclonic strength. And if not when that might happen.
Whilst it didn’t it is having the impact of a land falling cyclone anyway.
I wondered if #CycloneGabrielle would perhaps be the first cyclone in living memory to arrive at close to full cyclonic strength. And if not when that might happen.
Whilst it didn’t it is having the impact of a land falling cyclone anyway.
https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1625052151939489793
The size of recent cyclonic storms has increased markedly over recent years.
Cyclones are getting bigger and wetter, longer lived and travel longer distances. #CycloneGabrielle is a perfect example of this.
Cyclones are getting bigger and wetter, longer lived and travel longer distances. #CycloneGabrielle is a perfect example of this.
Extra tropical cyclones are always larger also, they collapse and spread out. What makes Gabrielle particularly unusual in cyclone terms is its continuing strength and slow speed post extra tropical transition.
https://twitter.com/AussieFromSpace/status/1624664259220344838
The strange link in its motion, heading into the Hauraki Gulf and making a right turn is also very unusual for an extra tropical cyclone, but routine common among tropical cyclonic storms.
The question now is whether #CycloneGabrielle is a freak storm, or whether this kind of storm could be one common. This is undoubtedly the most damaging storm to ever hit New Zealand,
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