Winston has muscled its way into the record books

Cyclone Winston, a category-5 storm with wind gusts reaching 300km/h, struck Fiji last weekend leaving 44 people dead, 45,000 people displaced, 350,000 directly impacted and $650 million worth of damage.

According to Weather Underground, Winston is among the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall in world recorded history, and the strongest recorded in the Southern Hemisphere.

Read the Climate Council story - “Was Cyclone Winston influenced by climate change?”