Heavy rain warnings remain in force for Tongatapu,‘Eua and Ha’apa Featured
8 August, 2016. A frontal system lies slow moving over Tongatapu, ‘Eua and Ha’apai. It has been generally overcast with rain in Tongatapu and Eua since yesterday.
Current warning
A heavy rain warning remains in force for Tongatapu, ‘Eua and Ha’apai.
Forecast
It is anticipated that heavy rain with isolated thunderstorms continue on for this evening with rain easing to showers tomorrow and clearing up on Wednesday afternoon. Wind generally light to moderate east to northeast winds with gust up to 25 knots expected in area of heavy rain and thunderstorms.
Observations
The following are rainfall and wind reports from Tonga weather stations
Location 24-hrs rainfall
Niuafoou 0.0mm
Niuatoputapu 2.9mm
Lupepau’u Airport 0.6mm
Pilolevu Airport 2.1mm
Fua’amotu 70.2mm
Table 1.Significant rainfall recorded over the last 24-hrs from 01pm 7 August-1pm 8 August 2016
The heaviest 24 hour rainfall on record for August in Tongatapu was 145mm 14 August 1993. The minimum temperature for the last 24 hours throughout Tonga was 17.6 deg C recorded at Fua’amotu last night.
-Meteorology Division
