Another powerful storm likely to hit East Sea next week
VOV.VN - Following the recent dissipation of TALIM, the first tropical storm to hit the East Sea this stormy season, another powerful storm is likely to form and strike the regional sea next week, according to the National Centre for Hydro Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).
TALIM has hit the East Sea, leaving behind several cyclonic circulations (cyclogenesis), with one of them likely to strengthen into a tropical depression and then a tropical storm in a couple of days, said Dr. Hoang Phuc Lam, deputy director of the NCHMF.
“It’s highly likely that the second storm will affect Vietnam in the last days of July,” Lam told VOV.VN in an interview on July 19.
“We are closely monitoring and will give early warnings about the evolution of the new weather pattern,” he said.
TALIM battered localities along the Vietnam – China border on July 18 afternoon, causing heavy downpours. Although it did not directly slam into the northern coast of Vietnam as earlier forecast, the storm circulation also brought heavy rain to northern localities.
The NCHMF reported in its July 19 bulletin that many places in the northern and north-central regions received heavy rain of 70mm to 100mm overnight.
Meteorologists warned about continued torrential rain and flashfloods as well as landslides in low-lying and mountainous areas in the coming days, especially in Quang Ninh, Cao Bang, Lang Son, Lao Cai and Yen Bai provinces.
