According to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting, on November 4-6, northern localities would have an average temperature of around 25 degrees centigrade. However, on November 7-8, there would be rains and the temperature would considerably sink to below 20 degrees centigrade.
The northern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to experience the strongest cold spell since the onset of this year’s winter
"This will be the strongest cold snap so far this year,” said Nguyen Van Huong, head of the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting’s Forecasting Department. He added that the centre earlier forecasted that this year’s winter would come earlier than usual.
Huong added that between October 28 and November 1, the rains caused the temperature in many northern localities and the central provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Ha Tinh to fall to 21-23 degrees centigrade. The temperatures even dropped to between 19-21 in many mountainous areas.
He cited statistics from the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting for Vietnam’s weather by the end of October over the past 50 years as saying that the phenomenon of being rainy for 3-5 consecutive days with the temperature of 20-22 degrees centigrade like this year was not common.
