Cyclone Winston

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Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston was an extremely powerful, long-lived, erratic, and destructive tropical cyclone that made a catastrophic landfall in Fiji in late February 2016. Winston became the most intense tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere on record, with a central pressure of 884 mbar (26.10 inHg). It is also the strongest to make landfall on record worldwide in terms of ten-minute maximum sustained winds and central pressure. At the time, Winston was the costliest tropical cyclone on record in the South Pacific basin, until it was surpassed by Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023. The fourth named storm and third severe tropical cyclone of the 2015–16 South Pacific cyclone season, Winston was the most intense and longest lasting tropical cyclone worldwide in 2016. The system was first noted as a tropical disturbance on 7 February 2016, when it was located to the northwest of Port Vila, Vanuatu. Over the next few days, the system gradually developed as it moved southeast, acquiring...

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