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
A powerful storm named Babet will bring significant impacts of wind and rain to Ireland and portions of the United Kingdom into the weekend, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. The storm, which was crossing the English Channel between the U.K. and France as of Wednesday afternoon, local time, has already brought pounding waves and flooding rainfall to parts of the region. Similar conditions and at least gale-force winds were ahead for portions of northeastern England and Scotland through Saturday.
Evacuations are underway as Khanun, which killed at least two people in Japan last week, heads toward the country again, and it will be followed by a direct landfall in South Korea later this week, AccuWeather forecasters warn. The tropical cyclone, which lost wind intensity and became a tropical storm last week after moving through the islands of southern Japan as a powerful typhoon, was located about a hundred miles to the south of Kyushu, as of late Tuesday evening, local time. The system was
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Mawar has intensified once more into a super typhoon after AccuWeather forecasters say Guam had an incredibly close brush with the powerful storm on Wednesday. The center of the storm, then just a typhoon, had bore down on the U.S. territory and unloaded a deluge of rainfall, unleashed destructive winds and knocked out power to nearly the entire island. On Wednesday afternoon, local time, only 1,000 out of the 52,000 customers on the island had power, the Guam Power Authority confirmed in a stat