Cyclone Gabrielle kills 11 in New Zealand

Cyclone Gabrielle kills 11 in New Zealand

• The death toll due to Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand climbed to 11 today, February 19, as thousands of people remained missing a week after the storm struck the country's North Island.
• The cyclone hit the North Island's uppermost region on the 12th of February inflicting widespread devastation. Rescue and recovery efforts are continuing, with teams from Auckland Council carrying out rapid building assessments on damaged homes in the coastal areas of Muriwai and Piha.
• Prime Minister Hipkins has said that the crisis response is still underway while people across the North Island are working around the clock.

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What is a cyclone?

• A cyclone is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anticyclone).
• Cyclones are characterized by inward-spiraling winds that rotate about a zone of low pressure.
• The largest low-pressure systems are polar vortices and extratropical cyclones of the largest scale

Published date : 20 Feb 2023 06:25PM