3 Feb 2010

French Polynesia on alert for Oli

4:16 pm on 3 February 2010

A tropical depression is on track towards French Polynesia where an alert is in force.

On its current path the depression named Oli is bound for the Society Islands.

Oli formed in the Cook Islands but there the warning has now been cancelled.

Last week, Cyclone Nisha affected the same are in the northern Cook Islands before moving into French Polynesia's Tuamotu archipelago where some atolls experienced flooding.