According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, last night and this morning (April 18), the Northeast region, Lao Cai, Thanh Hoa and North Nghe An had showers and thunderstorms, locally heavy to very heavy rain. Rainfall from 7 pm on April 17 to 8 am on April 18 was over 100mm in some places, such as the following monitoring stations: Hiep Luc 101.2mm (Thai Nguyen), Phu Luu (Tuyen Quang) 119 mm, Tinh Gia (Thanh Hoa) 161mm, ...
Forecast for the day and night of April 18, the mountainous and midland areas of the Northern region will have scattered showers and thunderstorms with rainfall from 10 - 30mm, locally heavy rain over 70mm. Rain concentrated in the night and early morning.
The meteorological agency warns that thunderstorms are likely to occur with tornadoes, lightning, hail and strong gusts of wind.
Thunderstorms accompanied by tornadoes, lightning, hail and strong gusts of wind can affect agricultural production, causing trees to fall, damage to houses, traffic works, and infrastructure. Localized heavy rains are likely to cause flash floods on small rivers and streams, landslides on slopes, and flooding in low-lying areas. Disaster risk level warning due to tornadoes, lightning, and hail is level 1.
Previously, in a bulletin issued at 4:40 am on April 18, the meteorological agency said that from 2 am to 4 am on April 18, the areas of Thai Nguyen, Cao Bang and Lang Son provinces had moderate to heavy rain, with very heavy rain in some places such as: Na Phac 52.4 mm (Thai Nguyen); Ha Lang 74.4 mm (Cao Bang);...
Warning that in the next 3-6 hours, the above provinces will continue to have rain with accumulated rainfall commonly from 20-50mm, in some places over 70mm.
Risk of flash floods on small rivers and streams, landslides on slopes in many communes/wards.
Flash floods and landslides can have very negative impacts on the environment, causing local traffic congestion, affecting the movement of vehicles; destroying 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.
