Tahiti district battered by large swells
French Polynesia is being battered by 8-9 metre swells.
French Polynesia is being battered by 8-9 metre swells.
All marine and water associated actions are forbidden for many of the territory together with going to the seaside.
Native authorities have put a purple alert stage for the Southern and Western islands the place the waves are mentioned to be inflicting a sea stage rise.
Flooding in Parapa district, Tahiti
Photograph: Fb
In accordance with native meterological authorities that is an distinctive phenomenon which hasn’t been seen in French Polynesia since 2005.
Some areas have skilled flooding within the Western Coastal district of Parapa on Tahiti island.
Native meterologist for Meteo-France Thierry Dupont advised La premiere it is not local weather change associated.
“We’ve got a powerful melancholy on the south-west of the territory.
“It isn’t local weather change associated, we have now entered the winter season.
“It is a season the place the far within the south creates robust depressions and subsequently waves.”
