On the afternoon of November 9, through monitoring on satellite cloud images, lightning positioning images and weather radar images, it was shown that the areas of Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, Tay Ninh, Dong Thap, An Giang, Vinh Long had showers and thunderstorms.
In the next 4 hours, convective clouds will continue to cause showers and thunderstorms in the above area, then may expand to neighboring areas. During thunderstorms, there is a possibility of tornadoes, lightning, hail and strong gusts of wind, flash floods on small rivers and streams, landslides on steep slopes.
Weather forecast for the next 24-48 hours, the continental cold high pressure will strengthen and shift to the East. Super typhoon Fung-wong from the eastern Philippines is moving northwest, and is likely to enter the eastern East Sea on November 10.
Weather forecast for the next 3-10 days, the continental cold high pressure around November 12-13 will strengthen weakly and return to the North of our country, then strengthen strongly on November 16-17.
Typhoon Fung-wong tends to move towards Taiwan (China) and gradually weaken. From November 13, the Northeast wind will gradually strengthen over the Southern sea.
Therefore, the Southern region will maintain scattered showers and thunderstorms in the evening, with showers and thunderstorms in some places at night. Beware of thunderstorms accompanied by dangerous weather phenomena such as tornadoes and strong gusts of wind affecting agricultural production, breaking trees, damaging houses, traffic works, and infrastructure.
Regarding high tides, the highest water level of the day at most stations on the Saigon River will continue to drop rapidly in the next 3-4 days, then change slowly. The highest peak water level of the day above alert level 2 will remain throughout today (November 9), at Thu Dau Mot station until November 10, then fall to approximately or below alert level 1.