{"id":8244,"date":"2023-10-25T05:38:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8244"},"modified":"2023-10-25T05:38:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:38:39","slug":"vanuatu-braces-for-300km-h-winds-from-cyclone-lola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8244","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu braces for 300km\/h winds from Cyclone Lola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Vanuatu has suspended all domestic and international flights while\u00a0authorities are calling ships back to harbour, in anticipation of violent winds and a potentially tsunami-like storm surge as tropical Cyclone Lola bears down on the region.<\/p>\n<p>Lola was earlier upgraded to a category 5 storm, with our Pacific neighbours on red alert as they brace for winds over 300km\/h. It has since been downgraded to category 4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/pacific\/500813\/category-2-cyclone-lola-warnings-in-vanuatu\">Tropical Cyclone Lola<\/a>\u00a0is sitting just to the northeast of Vanuatu, and is expected to crash straight into the archipelago on Wednesday. It is the earliest recorded category 5 cyclone ever to develop in the South Pacific, with the official cyclone season not beginning until 1 November.<\/p>\n<p>Vanuatu Meteorological Service\u00a0acting director Fred Jockley\u00a0said at midday Lola was about 175km southeast of Vanua Lava in the country&#8217;s north, and 120km northeast of Maewo in the south.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are expecting it to come in from the east of Penama Province,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/checkpoint\/audio\/2018912425\/vanuatu-braces-for-300km-winds-from-category-5-storm\">he told<em>\u00a0Checkpoint<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trackers showed Lola on course to arrive at the archipelago late Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will make a landfall over Pentecost Island \u2026 crossing most probably Malampa Province with category 5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said locals had been told to &#8220;seek shelter, get prepared, get water and what they need to, to get themselves prepared&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Officials had organised evacuation centres in places like churches and schools.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Vanuatu has suspended all domestic and international flights while\u00a0authorities are calling ships back to harbour, in anticipation of violent winds and a potentially tsunami-like storm surge as tropical Cyclone Lola bears down on the region. Lola was earlier upgraded to a category 5 storm, with our Pacific neighbours on red alert as they brace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8246,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244\/revisions\/8246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}