Cyclone pummeling northern New Zealand causes widespread power outages and triggers evacuations
The storm could see Auckland's air pressure drop to 970 hPa, "likely a low pressure record going back ~170 years," NIWA added.: In general, the lower the pressure the stronger the storm.
As for tropical cyclones and warming, in general the expectation for most ocean basins is for fewer storms in number, but a higher proportion of higher category and wetter storms, as experienced in the U.S. with, halfway between Australia and New Zealand, on Saturday. "Cyclone Gabrielle has not weakened, it has transitioned away from a tropical cyclone so the tropical cyclone category system is no longer applicable," the MetService said in another
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