Từ khóa: #floodwater

The Northern and North-Central regions are experiencing worse weather conditions with prolonged downpours and flooding. Currently, many people have been isolated by floodwater and many places are at risk of landslides. 

Heavy rains have caused flooding in many places in Thanh Hoa and Nghe An provinces since the morning of September 8, turning life upside down.

Overnight incessant rains continued to prolong over the Northern and North-Central provinces and cities such as Hoa Binh, Thai Nguyen, Bac Ninh, Ha Nam and Thanh Hoa this morning.

Thousands of houses had been flooded and many embankments, traffic roads had been broken after the prolonged spell of heavy and persistent downpours in the Central provinces of Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh and Thua Thien-Hue from November 28 through November 29. 

The National Center for Hydrology Meteorology Forecasting yesterday said that the water levels on the upstream Mekong River are rising. 

Extreme rainfalls following a tropical low-pressure system have caused rising floodwater levels in rivers and streams and separated roads across the North Central province of Quang Tri.

This year’s flood peak in the upstream Mekong River is able to reach levels 1-2 while floodwater at the downstream station of Mekong Delta could be at alert levels 2-3 at the end of September or the beginning of October.

Along with the floodwater, the huge quantum of red sand was massively overflowed of Huynh Thuc Khang Street leading to the Mui Ne national tourist site after a torrential downpour last night which caused serious traffic congestion, buried vehicles and damaged properties. 

After making landfall in Central coastal provinces between Binh Dinh and Ninh Thuan this monring, Storm Etau has started devastating houses, uprooting trees, triggering heavy rain and flooding in many places.

 

Rescuers found four dead bodies, including two children, who were among seven people swept away by floodwater in the Central province of Nghe An.

Flood death toll rose to eight and 44 others were injured as storm Linfa and Nangka dumped prolonged torrential downpours in the Central province of Quang Binh, according to the Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, Search and Rescue. 

The Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control informed that flooding has worsened in the Central province of Quang Binh over last week when prolonged torrential downpours have caused waist-deep floods in the most parts of districts and Dong Hoi City.

According to a report of the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, at least 63 victims in Vietnam’s central provinces were washed away by floodwater following prolonged torrential downpours by the morning of October 16.

According to the National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center, the Southern region continues to see bad weather condition with large-scale downpours and sustained winds in the next several days.

A long- lasting heavy rains suddenly drenched provinces and cities from Nghe An to Phu Yen with an average rainfall of 100- 150 mm on December 7-9, according to the latest weather news from the mid- central region’s hydrology meteorology forecast center.

The National Center for Hydro Meteorological Forecasting said The Mekong Delta’s floodwater is forecast to rise in the next three days and then reduce until September 20; on September 25 the water level is expected to rise quickly to peak at 4.2m.