The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said that low pressure area 99W operating in the middle and southern areas of the East Sea had strengthened into a tropical depression on July 13.
According to the Storm page in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, observations on satellite cloud images on the afternoon of July 13 showed that the cloud circulation tends to swirl in the center very clearly, with the circulation cloud disk almost covering the middle and southern regions of the Sea. Winter.
It is forecasted that when the tropical depression approaches the Central Coast region 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 moves west-northwest at a speed of 7 km/h. The tropical depression will strengthen the southwest monsoon over southwestern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
According to the Vietnam National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting, at 7:00 a.m. on July 14, the location of the tropical depression's center was at about 14.9 degrees north latitude; 112.0 degrees east longitude, in the southern waters of the Hoang Sa archipelago.
The strongest wind near the center of the tropical depression is strong at level 6 (39-49 km/h), with gusts at level 8; moving northwest at a speed of about 10 km/h.
Day and night of July 15, the sea area from Binh Dinh to Ca Mau, the southern region of the East Sea (including the waters of the Truong Sa archipelago) had strong southwest winds of level 6, sometimes level 7, with gusts of level 8-9.
Particularly, the southwest sea of the northern region of the East Sea, the northwest sea of the middle of the East Sea and the offshore waters from Quang Binh to Quang Ngai have strong winds of level 6-7, with gusts of level 9; Sea waves are 2-4 m high; strong sea.
The sea area from Ca Mau to Kien Giang, Gulf of Thailand strong southwest wind level 5, sometimes level 6, gusting level 7; Waves are 1.5-2.5 m high, rough sea.
Strong winds and large waves at sea will continue in the coming days.
