AccuWeather meteorologists are keeping their eyes on Tropical Storm Pilar, which is currently drifting off the El Salvador coast. Conditions could allow it to intensify rapidly, similar to Otis and Norma earlier this month. On Saturday afternoon, Tropical Depression 19-E formed in the eastern Pacific a few hundred miles to the southwest of El Salvador. Amid favorable conditions, the depression strengthened into a tropical storm later Sunday evening. Tropical Storm Pilar swirling off the coast of
AccuWeather meteorologists are keeping their eyes on Tropical Storm Pilar, which is currently drifting off the El Salvador coast. Conditions could allow it to intensify rapidly, similar to Otis and Norma earlier this month. On Saturday afternoon, Tropical Depression 19-E formed in the eastern Pacific a few hundred miles to the southwest of El Salvador. Amid favorable conditions, the depression strengthened into a tropical storm later Sunday evening. Tropical Storm Pilar swirling off the coast of
Cyclone Lola was bearing down on Vanuatu on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AccuWeather Enhanced RealVue™ Satellite) 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 Caledonia and New Zealand into next week. No casualties were reported in Vanuatu, an archipelago of islands locate
Even though Tammy is no longer a full-fledged tropical system, it will live on as a potent tropical wind and rainstorm while hovering near Bermuda through the weekend, AccuWeather meteorologists say. Forecasters caution that another area to watch for tropical development may be near the Caribbean next week. Tammy peaked as a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday as it moved northward while in a zone of stiff breezes, known as wind shear, AccuWeather Tropical Meteorologist Alex DaSilva said. Typicall
Cyclone Lola was bearing down on Vanuatu on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AccuWeather Enhanced RealVue™ Satellite) Severe Tropical Cyclone Lola strengthened before bearing down on the Pacific islands of Vanuatu on Tuesday, bringing an early start to the tropical storm season for the region and putting lives and property at risk in the nation's second-most populated city of Luganville, among other locations. The Vanuatu Meteorology Department said Lola's central winds were estimated to be over 100 mph