The forecast for rain from May 27-29 shows that the southern provinces of China will experience the heaviest rainfall since the beginning of the year - Xinhua News Agency reported.
According to the National Meteorological Center (NMC), this rain will fall on Guizhou, the southern part of the Yangtze River and the entire southern part of the country - which has experienced heavy rain many times since the beginning of May. Some places are warned of extremely heavy rain, posing a high risk of natural disasters.
This is the fourth major rainstorm since May 13 in southern China.
China's meteorological and natural disaster prevention agencies simultaneously issued flash flood warnings (green level - lowest level among 4 levels) in Yunnan and landslide warnings (yellow level - lowest level 3) in the Central and Western Yunnan areas.
These warnings are in effect from the evening of May 26 to the evening of May 27, and may continue to be updated in the coming days.
In parallel with the weather warning, rescue forces are still trying to find missing people in the flash flood in Sanshe village, Long Thang district, Que Lam city (Quang Tay province) that occurred in the early morning of May 24.
As of the evening of May 26, the number of dead had increased to 6, with 2 people still unknown. The local government has mobilized 9 rescue teams to continue the large-scale search.
Meanwhile, at 9:30 a.m. on May 26, the Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting also issued a forecast of heavy rain in the areas of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh; thunderstorms; warnings of local heavy rain, tornadoes, lightning, hail, strong gusts of wind in the area from Quang Tri to Quang Ngai and the South.
Central and Southern regions will have scattered showers and thunderstorms, locally heavy to very heavy rain. Rainfall from 7pm on May 25 to 8am on May 26 was over 100mm in some places such as: Ky Phu (Ha Tinh) 238.6mm, Quang Phuc (Quang Binh) 105mm, Phong Dien (Hue) 135.6mm,...
On May 26, Ha Tinh and Quang Binh areas will have moderate rain, heavy rain and thunderstorms, locally very heavy rain with common rainfall of 20-40mm, locally over 80mm.
In the afternoon and evening of May 26, the area from Quang Tri to Quang Ngai, the South will have scattered showers and thunderstorms, locally heavy rain with rainfall from 10-30mm, some places over 50mm.
From the night of May 26, heavy rain in the Central region will gradually decrease. Warning of the risk of local heavy rain >80mm/3 hours.
Accompanying natural disasters: Showers, thunderstorms, risk of tornadoes, lightning, hail, strong gusts of wind. Flash floods on small rivers and streams, landslides on steep slopes. Flooding in low-lying areas, urban areas, and industrial parks.
