{"id":76949,"date":"2026-04-08T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/08\/tropical-cyclone-vaianu-forecast-path-track-fiji-new-zealand"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:27:02","slug":"tropical-cyclone-vaianu-may-bring-life-threatening-winds-to-new-zealand-forecasters-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76949","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Vaianu may bring life-threatening winds to New Zealand, forecasters warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Category 3 cyclone is moving south of Fiji towards New Zealand, with winds at centre in excess of 150km\/h<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Cyclone Vaianu forming in the Pacific could bring life-threatening winds and heavy rain to New Zealand later this week, forecasters have said, with strong wind watches issued for the entire North Island.<\/p>\n<p>The category 3 cyclone is moving south of Fiji towards New Zealand, with winds around the centre in excess of 150km\/h, MetService said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/08\/tropical-cyclone-vaianu-forecast-path-track-fiji-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Category 3 cyclone is moving south of Fiji towards New Zealand, with winds at centre in excess of 150km\/hTropical Cyclone Vaianu forming in the Pacific could bring life-threatening winds and heavy rain to New Zealand later this week, forecasters have s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,455,56,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76953,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76949\/revisions\/76953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}