Tropical Cyclone Winston

Tropical cyclone Winston is now a Category 4 storm and is probably going to make a direct hit on Fiji, tomorrow, Saturday. It will likely be a record storm for Fiji. The storm is fueled by high sea surface temperatures, which extend to a significant depth, which probably caused the storm to intensify rapidly and to such a high state. Jeff Masters and Bob Henson have written up the important information on this storm, here. Fiji has been hit with a number of bad tropical storms, mainly concentrated in recent decades. UPDATE (Friday PM Central) Jeff Masters and Bob Henson are now…