The National Center for Hydro-meteorology Forecast Center warned that a newly-formed low pressure zone in the South- Philippines may intensify into a storm in the East Sea.
Phuoc Loc is the most affected commune in Phuoc Son District, Quang Nam Province as recent storms bringing landslides and flash floods left 13 people dead and missing, damaged traffic infrastructure, buried and isolated tens of households for the past 15 days.
The latest weather news from the National Center for Hydro-Meteorology Forecasting showed that hurricane Goni entered the Central Philippines and downgraded its intensity this morning.
Amid the extreme scorching climate, the storm and flood -prone provinces of Binh Dinh and Quang Ngai have stepped up their efforts to speed up the progress of sea dyke, dam and irrigation reservoir projects, notably their key traffic works in advance the upcoming predicted stormy and flooding season.
A conference of the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disasters Prevention and Control related to deployment of urgent tasks and measures dealing with the tropical low-pressure system was held in the capital city of Hanoi this morning.
The National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center issued a preliminary notice of the path, landing areas and impacts of tropical depression this morning.
According to the latest news from the National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center, the eye of Kammuri was located at around 430 kilometers from the northeastern part of the Southwest Cay islet yesterday evening.
The latest weather news from the National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center of Vietnam said that the tropical depression, developed from a low pressure zone in the East Sea last night, moved towards the Philippines this morning.
Natural disasters had caused damages of up to VND20 trillion ($859.7 million) in 2018, said Mr. Nguyen Hiep who is deputy head of the Disaster Response and Consequence Management Bureau.
