Updated bulletin issued at 4:20 PM from the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, in the past 24 hours (from 4:00 PM on July 17 to 4:00 PM on July 18), the area of Lai Chau, Dien Bien, Son La and Lao Cai provinces had moderate rain, heavy rain and very heavy rain in some places such as Muong Te monitoring station 169mm, Bum To 154mm (Lai Chau); Na Tau 78mm (Dien Bien); Nam Pam 38.4mm (Son La); Che Tao 1 112.4mm (Lao Cai)....
In the past 1 hour (from 3 pm to 4 pm on July 18), Tuyen Quang province had moderate to heavy rain, such as 34.2mm from Thu Ta monitoring station.
The soil moisture model shows that some areas in the above provinces have been near saturation (over 85%) or reached saturation status.
Warning that in the next 3-6 hours, the above provinces will continue to have rain with accumulated rainfall from 20 - 40mm, in some places over 80mm.
Warning in the next 6 hours, there is a risk of flash floods on small rivers and streams, landslides on slopes in many communes/wards.
Warning level of natural disaster risk due to flash floods, landslides, subsidence due to rain, floods or currents is level 1.
Flash floods and landslides can have very negative impacts on the environment, causing local traffic congestion, affecting the movement of vehicles; civil and economic works causing damage to production activities and socio-economic activities.
The meteorological agency recommends that functional agencies in localities pay attention to reviewing flow bottlenecks and key locations in the area to have preventive and response measures.
The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting also forecasts that from the night of July 18 to the night of July 19, the mountainous and midland areas of the Northern region will have moderate rain, heavy rain and thunderstorms with common rainfall of 50 - 100mm, locally very heavy rain over 250mm. Warning of the risk of heavy rain with rainfall greater than 100mm in 3 hours.
