The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said that low pressure area 99W operating in the central and southern East Sea areas strengthened into a tropical depression on July 13.
According to the Typhoon page on the Northwest Pacific, observation on satellite cloud images on the afternoon of July 13 showed that the cloud circulation tends to wander into the center very clearly, with the cloud discs circulating almost completely in the central and southern East Sea.
It is forecasted that when the tropical depression approaches the Central Central Coast of Vietnam on July 15, the possibility of strengthening into a storm cannot be ruled out.
Meanwhile, the weather forecast from the Philippine Meteorological Agency said that the tropical depression is currently 930 km west of Metro Manila. Surface wind speed 43 km/h. Sea level pressure 1001.9mb.
The tropical depression is moving west-northwest at a speed of 7 km/h. The tropical depression will intensify the southwest monsoon over the southwestern areas of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
According to the Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, at 7:00 a.m. on July 14, the center of the tropical depression was at about 14.9 degrees north latitude; 112.0 degrees east longitude, in the southern sea of Hoang Sa archipelago.
The strongest wind near the center of the tropical depression is level 6 (39-49 km/h), gusting to level 8; moving northwest at a speed of about 10 km/h.
On the day and night of July 15, the sea area from Binh Dinh to Ca Mau, the southern East Sea area (including the Truong Sa archipelago) will have strong southwest winds of level 6, sometimes level 7, gusting to level 8-9.
In particular, the southwestern sea area of the northern East Sea, the northwestern sea area of the central East Sea and the offshore sea area from Quang Binh to Quang Ngai will have strong winds of level 6-7, gusts of level 9; waves 2-4 m high; rough seas.
The sea area from Ca Mau to Kien Giang, the Gulf of Thailand has strong southwest winds of level 5, sometimes level 6, gusting to level 7; waves 1.5-2.5 m high, rough seas.
The situation of strong winds and big waves at sea will continue in the coming days.
