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Fiji should brace for a tropical cyclone this weekend says Director of Meteorology Rajendra Prasad.
Prasad told FijiLive that a tropical depression 720 kilometres northwest of Udu Point could be curving and going right across the group this weekend.
“We should feel the direct effects of this system by Saturday night or Sunday morning,” he said.
Prasad said the system was shaping into a tropical cyclone and should be named this afternoon.
He said weather patterns had not changed much as yet because the system was tightening and rain bands were converging into the centre of the system.
However, winds should be picking up in the open seas and the north eastern and eastern parts of Fiji should experience rain from today.
He said a second system near Vanuatu was expected to move towards the Queensland coast but there was a slight possibility that it could curve and come back towards Fiji.
