This timelapse uses false colour infrared imagery from JMA’s MTSAT geostationary satellite to track the path of Tropical Cyclone Zelia forming and forming and rapidly travelling south over New Zealand & dissipating.

At the start of the video you can clearly see Tropical Cyclone Vania in the east, and then at the end you can see its remnants passing over the south of New Zealand.

Our thanks to www.theweatherchaser.com for providing the video to WeatherWatch.co.nz.