🇻🇺🚨🌀Severe Cyclone LOLA is moving into #Vanuatu.

⚠️Landfall looking most likely in #Penama Province later tonight.

At this stage #LOLA is still Category 5 but is expected to weaken overnight (but likely remain "severe" … which is Category 3 or above). #TCLola. pic.twitter.com/Gg29VN6dtS

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) October 24, 2023

🌀👁️‍Looks can be deceiving, but over the past 6 hours the eyewall of Severe #TCLola has collapsed & become much messier. A possible sign the storm's peaked in power.

In saying that, Fiji Met still has Category 5 – and even if it weakens to Category 4 it's still very dangerous. pic.twitter.com/Wcj3N0sfxf

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) October 24, 2023

🚨🌀#Alert: #VANUATU🇻🇺 The worst of the damaging winds from Severe Category5️⃣ #TCLola are now starting to increase over the following main islands: #Maewo, #Pentecost, #Ambae.

⚠️🕐The eye of #LOLA may make landfall over #PenamaProvince late tonight or early Wednesday AM. pic.twitter.com/2hB2F1L57Z

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) October 24, 2023

🚨🌀🛰️📽️Infrared Satellite Imagery from past 12 hours (prior to time stamps below).

⚠️Category5️⃣Severe Tropical Cyclone #LOLA is a very serious & dangerous storm.

Winds: Estimated sustained at 200kmh gusting 250kmh. Moving slowly SW at 8kmh.

🇳🇿2:10pm NZDT
🇻🇺12:10pm #VANUTATU pic.twitter.com/PKl4bnMmSd

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) October 24, 2023

⚠️💣🌀Severe Cat 5 #TCLola is an explosive cyclone. Lola will weaken almost as fast as it formed.#Lola is likely now at peak strength, but may retain similar strength tonight as it moves in to the main islands of #VANUATU.

By Friday it's likely fallen apart in #NewCaledonia. pic.twitter.com/Pmzqlh0EKV

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) October 24, 2023

Tropical #CycloneLola has now become the earliest Category 5 tropical cyclone on record in the Southern Hemisphere. Full story coming shortly on @weatherzone. pic.twitter.com/kFXPIN4lU9

— Ben Domensino (@Ben_Domensino) October 23, 2023