At around 6am on May 10, many districts in Ho Chi Minh City experienced heavy rain accompanied by strong thunderstorms. Heavy rain makes the sky dark, making it difficult for people to travel.
After 9am, heavy rain still occurred, causing severe flooding on many streets such as Song Hanh, Nguyen Van Qua (District 12), Le Duc Tho, Nguyen Van Khoi, Pham Huy Ich, Pham Van Chieu streets (Go Vap district), Le Van Minh, Kha Van Can (Thu Duc city) ...
In the coming hours, thunderstorms will continue to develop and cause showers and thunderstorms in the above areas, then thunderstorms will tend to expand and spread to other neighboring areas. The common rainfall is from 34-110 mm, in some places over 120 mm. During thunderstorms, beware of tornadoes, lightning, hail, strong gusts of wind of level 5-8 (8-21 m/s), heavy rain causing local flooding.
Speaking with Lao Dong, Mr. Le Dinh Quyet - Head of Forecasting Department, Southern and Central Highlands Hydrometeorological Station - said that the cause of this rain is a combination of the activity of low-level southwest winds pushing in moisture from the sea, and the easterly trough (the trough has an axis almost parallel to the Earth's average), these two weather conditions interact and cause disruption.
Southern weather, changing clouds, sunny days. From May 10-14, the rain will increase in area and volume, with showers and thunderstorms in many places, some places will have moderate rain, heavy rain, locally very heavy rain. In the days after the decrease, there will only be scattered rain, with some places having moderate to heavy rain. During thunderstorms, it is necessary to be on guard against strong gusts of wind, tornadoes, lightning, and hail.
Image of the rain causing flooding on many streets in Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of May 10:
