According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, on August 18, the South will be cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms in some places, with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening, with some places having heavy to very heavy rain. Southwest wind level 2-3. During thunderstorms, there is a possibility of tornadoes, lightning, hail and strong gusts of wind.
Lowest temperature 23-26 degrees Celsius. Highest temperature 31-34 degrees Celsius.
According to the air monitoring application Air Visual (belonging to IQAir, which owns a large amount of aggregated data on air quality, headquartered in Switzerland), today's air quality in Ho Chi Minh City is at the sensitive threshold - 72.
Many sea areas (North, Central, South East Sea, Gulf of Tonkin, from South Quang Tri to Ca Mau, Ca Mau to An Giang, Gulf of Thailand) will have showers and thunderstorms; thunderstorms are likely to cause tornadoes, strong gusts of wind, waves over 3.5 m.