Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for MAILA-26 in Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea from 04 Apr 2026 00:00 UTC to 11 Apr 2026 00:00 UTC

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Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for MAILA-26

in Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea

11 Apr 2026 00 UTC

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Impact Single TC

Impact based on all weather systems in the area

Impact

Tropical Cyclone MAILA-26 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed,exposed population and vulnerability.

Meteorological source	GDACS
Exposed countries	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	231 km/h
Maximum storm surge	n.a.
Vulnerability	High (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

GDACS score for Tropical Cyclones is 0.5 (GREEN Level), 1.5 (ORANGE Level), 2.5 (RED Level)
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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
Current	65 km/h	n.a.	n.a.	0.5
Overall	231 km/h	0.0 m	n.a.	0.5
Maximum winds, storm surge, rainfall (Current: over the next 72 h, Overall: entire TC track) based on GDACS impact

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Wind

65 km/h Current Max.

Up to 410000 people in Tropical Storm strength or higher (see SSHS)

Impact Timeline

N°	Date (UTC)	Max Winds (km/h)	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Population in Cat 1. or higher	Countries
1	04 Apr 2026 00:00	148	260 thousand	No people	Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
2	04 Apr 2026 12:00	176	160 thousand	No people	Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
3	05 Apr 2026 00:00	204	220 thousand	Few people	Papua New Guinea
4	05 Apr 2026 12:00	204	500 thousand	40 thousand	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
5	06 Apr 2026 00:00	139	480 thousand	150 thousand	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
6	06 Apr 2026 06:00	167	580 thousand	160 thousand	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
7	06 Apr 2026 12:00	167	1.2 million	150 thousand	Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
8	06 Apr 2026 18:00	167	610 thousand	130 thousand	Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
9	07 Apr 2026 00:00	185	500 thousand	90 thousand	Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
10	07 Apr 2026 06:00	213	460 thousand	30 thousand	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
11	07 Apr 2026 12:00	213	620 thousand	70 thousand	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
12	07 Apr 2026 18:00	231	480 thousand	30 thousand	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
13	08 Apr 2026 00:00	213	620 thousand	40 thousand	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
14	08 Apr 2026 12:00	204	660 thousand	30 thousand	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
15	09 Apr 2026 00:00	185	550 thousand	6 thousand	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
16	09 Apr 2026 12:00	157	570 thousand	No people	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
17	10 Apr 2026 00:00	130	720 thousand	No people	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
18	10 Apr 2026 12:00	83	660 thousand	No people	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
19	11 Apr 2026 00:00	65	410 thousand	No people	Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea

Bulletin Timeline

N°	Date (UTC)	Category (SSHS)	Max winds (km/h)	Population in Cat.1 or higher	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Location (lat, lon)
1	04 Apr 2026 00:00	Tropical storm	65	no people	7700 people	-9.1, 155.1
2	04 Apr 2026 12:00	Tropical storm	83	no people	52000 people	-8.9, 155
3	05 Apr 2026 00:00	Category 1	120	<1000 people	38000 people	-8.8, 154.2
4	05 Apr 2026 12:00	Category 1	139	no people	86000 people	-9.3, 154.6
5	06 Apr 2026 00:00	Category 2	167	no people	53000 people	-9.5, 154.7
6	06 Apr 2026 06:00	Category 2	157	no people	72000 people	-9.7, 155.3
7	06 Apr 2026 12:00	Category 2	176	no people	68000 people	-9.7, 155.5
8	06 Apr 2026 18:00	Category 2	167	no people	93000 people	-9.9, 156.1
9	07 Apr 2026 00:00	Category 2	167	no people	93000 people	-9.9, 156.4
10	07 Apr 2026 06:00	Category 3	185	no people	87000 people	-9.9, 156.5
11	07 Apr 2026 12:00	Category 3	204	no people	120000 people	-9.7, 156.3
12	07 Apr 2026 18:00	Category 4	231	no people	81000 people	-9.5, 156
13	08 Apr 2026 00:00	Category 4	213	no people	180000 people	-9, 155.9
14	08 Apr 2026 12:00	Category 3	194	no people	290000 people	-8.6, 155.7
15	09 Apr 2026 00:00	Category 3	185	no people	200000 people	-8.5, 155.1
16	09 Apr 2026 12:00	Category 2	157	no people	170000 people	-8.3, 154.4
17	10 Apr 2026 00:00	Category 1	130	no people	350000 people	-8.1, 154.6
18	10 Apr 2026 12:00	Tropical storm	83	no people	10000 people	-8.4, 154.3
19	11 Apr 2026 00:00	Tropical storm	65	no people	150000 people	-7.8, 154.6
19	11 Apr 2026 12:00	Tropical depression	56	no people	no people	-8, 154.7
19	12 Apr 2026 00:00	Tropical depression	56	no people	no people	-8.3, 154.7

Actual track of the current bulletin

The alert for forecast greater than 3 days is limited to Orange level.

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Exposed population - AoIs

Exposed population in the potential affected countries, provinces and populated places

Countries

Country	Population in Tropical Storm or higher strength
Solomon Is.	60000 people
Papua New Guinea	240000 people

Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population in Tropical Storm or higher strength
Solomon Is.	Solomon Islands	60000 people
Northern Solomons	Papua New Guinea	220000 people
Milne Bay	Papua New Guinea	20000 people

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

Airports

Name	IATA Code	Elevation (m)
Mono	MNY	11
Ballalae		2
Buin	UBI	unknown
Oria	OTY	unknown
Arawa	RAW	unknown
Boku	BOQ	unknown
Karato	KAF	unknown
Torokina	TOK	unknown
Tonu	TON	unknown
Lehu	LHP	unknown
Kurwina	KWV	unknown
Aropa	KIE	3
Manetai	MVI	unknown
Wakunai	WKN	3
Inus	IUS	unknown
Barakoma V La Vella	VEV	unknown
Choiseul Bay	CHY	unknown
Guasopa	GAZ	-1
Sabah	SBV	unknown
Dios	DOS	unknown
Kukundu	KUE	unknown
Ringi Cove	RIN	unknown
Munda	MUA	3
Viru	QVU	unknown
Sege	EGM	3
Misima	MIS	7
Tagula	TGL	unknown

Ports

Name	LOCODE	Country
Blanche Harbour		Soloman Islands
Shortland Harbour	SBSHH	Soloman Islands
Shortland Harbor		Soloman Islands
Anewa Bay	PGANB	Papua New Guinea
Kieta	PGKIE	Papua New Guinea
Keita		Papua New Guinea
Malloco Bay		Soloman Islands
Choiseul Bay	SBCHY	Soloman Islands
Gizo Is	SBGZO	Soloman Islands
Suloga Harbor		Papua New Guinea
Buka	PGBUA	Papua New Guinea
Ringi Cove	SBRIN	Soloman Islands
Port Noro	SBNOR	Soloman Islands
Lever Harbor		Soloman Islands
Viru Harbour	SBVIU	Soloman Islands
Misima Island	PGMIS	Papua New Guinea
Bwagaoia		Papua New Guinea
Rossel Island		Papua New Guinea

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Rainfall

Rainfall accumulation of the past 24h, as detected by the Global Precipitation Measurement mission of NASA. For more information, see https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GPM/main/index.html.

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StormSurge

The JRC has developed an experimental global storm surge model. The calculations are published about 20 minutes after a new advisory is detected by GDACS. The calculations identify the populated places affected by storm surge up to three days in advance, using the forecasted track. When forecasts change, the associated storm surge changes too and alert levels may go up or down. All links, data, statistics and maps refer to the latest available calculation. If the calculation for the last advisory is not completed, the latest available calculation is shown.

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