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Severe Tropical Cyclone Lola is the strongest off-season tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere, surpassing the previous record held by Cyclone Xavier in 2006.The first tropical cyclone and severe tropical cyclone of the 2023–24 South Pacific cyclone season, Lola was first noted as an area of low pressure to the northeast of Honiara in the Solomon Islands.
During 2020, Cyclone Harold made landfall on northern Vanuatu as a Category 5 severe tropical cyclone, before later impacting Fiji and Tonga as a Category 4 severe tropical cyclone. [43] Later that year, Cyclone Yasa made landfall in Fiji as a Category 5 severe tropical cyclone with sustained winds of 240 km/h (150 mph) and momentary gusts of ...
Luganville, Vanuatu [1] Triple jump: 14.65 m Georges Taniel: 31 August 1978 Pirae, French Polynesia [1] Shot put: 14.27 m Georges Laurence: 27 June 1980 Port Vila, Vanuatu [1] Discus throw: 45.84 m Georges Laurence: 7 September 1982 Port Vila, Vanuatu [1] Hammer throw: 34.31 m Lachlan Kalsau: 13 December 2017 Pacific Mini Games: Port Vila ...
The Vanuatu Meteorology Department said Lola's central winds were estimated to be over 100 mph (165 km/hr) on Tuesday, making Severe Cyclone Lola the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane on the ...
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 ...
The strongest tropical cyclones to exist during the off-season in terms of wind speed was Severe Tropical Cyclone Donna of 2017 and Severe Tropical Cyclone Lola of 2023, with maximum 10–minute sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h), while the most intense by central pressure was Severe Tropical Cyclone Xavier of 2006, with a minimum value of ...
Cyclone Kevin approaching Vanuatu on 3 March At 21:00 UTC that same day, 09F strengthened into a Category 1 tropical cyclone in the Australian scale, with the FMS naming it as Kevin . [ 37 ] The JTWC subsequently followed suit and initiated advisories on the system. [ 38 ]
PORT VILA, Vanuatu (AP) -- Relief workers saw a flattened landscape and widespread destruction in Vanuatu's outer islands Tuesday after struggling for days to reach the areas of the South Pacific ...