The northern and central regions of Vietnam would face heavy rains from this afternoon, July 7, due to a tropical depression.
According to the National Centre for Hydrometeorology Forecasting, at around 4 am today, the tropical depression was around 100 kilometres from China’s Hainan Island. By 4 pm today, it would arrive in the Gulf of Tonkin with the strongest wind power of 50-60 km per hour.
In the next 12 and 24 hours to come, the tropical depression would move towards the northwest and it would be centred in the south of the northern delta and northern central regions by 4 pm on Thursday.
The tropical depression has been forecasted to weaken in the next 24-36 hours to come.
Between this afternoon and the end of Thursday, many localities in the northern and northern central regions would see downpours with the rainfall of 100-250 mm or even 300 mm. Hoa Binh, Son La, Phu Tho, Yen Bai, Lao Cai, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An would be affected the most.
Source: dtinews.vn