The Hanoitimes - The fourth typhoon in the East Sea this season, Typhoon Vicente, is forecast to get closer to northern Vietnam in the next few days, bringing strong wind gusts, rain and rough seas.
The Hanoitimes - The fourth typhoon in the East Sea this season, Typhoon Vicente, is forecast to get closer to northern Vietnam in the next few days, bringing strong wind gusts, rain and rough seas. The National Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Centre said that the typhoon's centre would be at 20.3N, 112.2E, some 180km from eastern Leizhou Peninsula in China . By noon tomorrow, it was forecast to be near 20.9N, 108.5E in the Bac Bo (Tonkin) Gulf, some 120km offshore from northern Quang Ninh Province 's Mong Cai District.
Vicente is expected to bring wind gusts of 74-102km per hour near the eye, which is within level 9-10.
In the next 48 to 72 hours, it would move west at a speed of 10-15kph, causing rough seas and strong winds from central Binh Thuan Province to the southernmost Ca Mau Province.
At 7pm local time yesterday, Vicente was located about 370km east-northern of the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands . Gales near the eye of the storm reached 75-88kph at level 9.
On Saturday evening, the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control had asked all coastal provinces from northern Quang Ninh Province to central Phu Yen Province to advise vessels at sea to not enter the typhoon's area.
Sea border guards yesterday co-ordinated with local authorities, families, ship owners and capital cities to guide more than 33,500 ships with over 128,100 people aboard to get out of the danger area.
At 07.00am on July 23, the storm was about 390km northeast of the Hoang Sa archipelago, with winds gusting up to 102 km per hour near its eye. Tracking the course of the storm, weather experts warned that Vicente is moving in complex directions. The storm was travelling between west and northwest throughout the night of July 23, and is expected to churn along the southern coast of China on July 24 before slamming into the northern coast the same day. After making landfall, Vicente will weaken into a low pressure system and move west to the Lao territory. The storm will bring heavy rains and strong winds when it batters Quang Ninh and Haiphong and nearby localities. At an urgent meeting in Hanoi on July 23, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai asked northern and central coastal provinces to keep a close watch on the development of the storm, and call in tourism and fishing vessels ashore. He reminded Red Delta and mountain provinces to reinforce key projects, draw up anti-flooding plans in urban areas, and evacuate local residents out of flash flood prone areas if required. The Deputy PM assigned two inspection teams to make fact-finding tours of northern coastal provinces and work on storm prevention plans with local administrations. ATP |