Two people have died during Sarai in Fiji, where the body of a man was found after he went missing in a river during the storm, and another drowned while swimming.
A third person has been hospitalised after being hit by a falling tree.
At it's centre, Sarai's winds are reaching up to 120 kilometres per hour, with some gusts to 170 kilometres per hour.
The cyclone is predicted to make landfall over the Vava'u island group on Monday or Tuesday, as a category one storm.
