According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, last night and this morning (July 16), the Northern mountainous region and the Central Highlands had rain, moderate rain and scattered thunderstorms, locally heavy rain; the Southern region had showers and scattered thunderstorms, locally heavy rain.
Rainfall calculated from 7 pm on July 15 to 8 am on July 16 in some places over 100mm such as Tua Sin Chai (Lai Chau) monitoring station 191.6mm, Tua Thang (Dien Bien) 160.1mm, Hai Son (Quang Ninh) 156.6mm, Quang Binh (Tuyen Quang) 114.4mm,...
The meteorological agency has forecast heavy rain developments in the coming days.
The mountainous and midland areas of the Northern region and Quang Ninh from July 16 to the end of July 18, are forecast to have moderate rain, heavy rain and thunderstorms with common rainfall of 80-150mm, locally very heavy rain over 300mm.
Warning of the risk of heavy rain with rainfall greater than 100mm/3 hours.
From July 19, the mountainous and midland areas of the Northern region will have rain, moderate rain and thunderstorms with rainfall of 20 - 40mm, locally heavy to very heavy rain over 100mm.
The Central Highlands and Southern regions in the evening and night of July 16th are forecast to have scattered showers and thunderstorms with rainfall of 10 - 30mm, locally heavy rain over 80mm. Rainfall is concentrated in the afternoon and night.
In thunderstorms, there is a possibility of tornadoes, lightning, hail and strong gusts of wind. Warning level of natural disaster risk due to heavy rain, tornadoes, lightning, hail is level 1.
Heavy rain and localized heavy rain are likely to cause flooding in low-lying areas, urban and industrial areas; flash floods on small rivers and streams, landslides on slopes.
