The National Center for Hydrology Meteorology Forecasting reported that a low-pressure zone in the middle of the East Sea has intensified into a tropical depression as of this morning.
This morning, weather forecasters said that the tropical depression weakened from the storm No. 2 (storm Mulan) is entering the Northern Province of Quang Ninh and the Northern City of Hai Phong, bringing heavy rain to Northern provinces and causing traffic congestion in a lot of streets in Hanoi.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan, Standing Deputy Head of the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, on August 9, signed the official dispatch No.23 requesting localities to prepare to deal with the possibility that tropical depression develops into a storm in the East Sea.
According to the latest weather news from the National Center for Hydrology Meteorology Forecasting, a current low-pressure zone is forecast to move west-northwest at a speed of 5 to 10 kilometers per hour, and by the noon of Monday, it is expected to intensify into a tropical depression.
Meteorologists said that in the next few days, a low pressure area will develop into a tropical depression, triggering a stronger monsoon in the South. They were forecasting that the weather in tourist areas in the southern region will be very bad.
The National Center for Hydrology Meteorology Forecasting reported that a low-pressure zone, which is likely to develop into a tropical depression, is moving west and forecast to combine with a tropical convergence range in the East Sea to trigger blustery winds and rough sea over the southern East Sea and the waters from Ca Mau to Kien Giang provinces.
A tropical depression has strengthened into storm CHABA, the first storm in the East Sea affecting Vietnam this year, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMH).
In the early morning of June 29, the National Center for Hydrology Meteorology Forecasting released a letter to ask the Steering Committees of coastal provinces from Quang Ninh to Khanh Hoa and relevant units to implement measures against a tropical depression.
The Standing Office of the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control reported that two people were killed, a person is still missing and five people were injured in the recent flood after an unusual extreme rain. Additionally, the heavy rainfall, whirlwinds and big waves capsized 262 vessels, devastated 2,592 floating cages, 88,055 hectares of paddy fields and 16,177 hectares of vegetable crops.
Meteorologists of the National Center for Hydrology Meteorology Forecasting warned that a tropical low-pressure system may be expected to form in the middle of the East Sea on January 27 (the 25th day of the last month of the lunar calendar) but it would not affect the mainland.
A tropical low-pressure system is moving west-northwest at a speed of 10 to 15 kilometers an hour toward the territorial waters from Khanh Hoa to Binh Thuan, forecast to unlease torrential downpour in Ho Chi Minh City from October 26-27.
Conson, the fifth tropical storm affecting Vietnam in the 2021 hurricane season has downgraded to a tropical depression, but it continues to bring medium-heavy rainfalls of 100- 200 mm to the Central provinces from Quang Tri to Quang Ngai, from Quang Binh to Thanh Hoa.
Storm Cempaka has weakened into a tropical low-pressure system which is forecast to stare southward, south-southeastward and eastward of Hainan Island (China) and further downgrade to a low-pressure zone heading to the territorial waters off North-Central Vietnam.
According to the National Center for Hydrology Meteorology Forecasting, a tropical low-pressure system is intensifying and expected to churn in the Gulf of Tonkin by the late evening of July 7.
A newly-formed tropical depression is expected to churn in coastal areas near the Paracel Islands late this evening, then move northwestward with a speed of 15- 20 kilometers per hour in the next 24-48 hours.
The National Center for Hydrology Meteorology Forecasting yesterday forecast that a tropical depression will be formed in the East Sea from July 6 to July 8 and the system will be likely to enter the Central region of Vietnam.
Typhoon Krovanh has just been downgraded to a tropical low pressure system in the southern part of the East Sea with sustained winds of 40 to 60 kilometers an hour, according to the National Center for Hydro-meteorology Forecasting.
According to the latest weather news of the National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center, storm Vamco intensifies slowly and currently meanders in the territorial waters from Quang Binh to Thua Thien-Hue provinces with sustained winds of up to level 12 as of this early morning.