Severe Cyclone Lola, packing winds equivalent to that of a major hurricane, rolled through Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean earlier this week, leaving behind a trail of destruction. Now a tropical rainstorm, AccuWeather hurricane experts expect some impacts from the storm in New Zealand into early next week. No casualties were reported in Vanuatu, an..
Packing winds of over 100 mph, Lola destroyed numerous homes across the islands of Vanuatu as it moved through earlier this week. Now what's left of the storm has its sights set on New Zealand., packing winds equivalent to that of a major hurricane, rolled through Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean earlier this week, leaving behind a trail of destruction.
The Vanuatu Meteorology Department said Lola's central winds were estimated to be over 100 mph on Tuesday before it impacted the country, making it the equivalent of a major Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale . By Friday, local time, Lola was classified as a tropical rainstorm, but the system is still expected to bring rain and wind impacts to others in the South Pacific through next Tuesday.
ranked as a Category 5 on Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Tropical Cyclone Intensity Scale, with winds near 135 mph . That is the highest level on Australia's scale, which differs from the SSHWS.But it has left some pretty horrific damage in its wake.October 25, 2023 The storm will go down as the earliest Category 5 cyclone on record in the southern hemisphere,held by cyclones Joan in 1975 and Graham in 1991, which both reached that status on Dec. 5, during the traditional heart of the Australian cyclone season.Having lost wind intensity since impacting Vanuatu, Lola is now a tropical rainstorm, but it is forecast by AccuWeather's team of international forecasters to continue tracking southeastward.
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