Dry season 2005-2006: Severe drought?

According to the Deputy Director of the Central Center for Meteorological and Hydrological Forecasting Nguyen Lan Chau, the dry season 2005-2006, the drought situation is likely to take place more severely than the dry season of 2004-2005, the year of severe drought. most in the last 40 years.

In the dry season 2005-2006, will drought be more severe than the previous dry season?In the picture: Coffee withered by drought in the dry season 2004-2005

In the last 10 days of November, the water level of the Red River in Hanoi only reached 2.72m, nearly 1.5m lower than the average level of many years and is still falling.

Many river sections flowing through Hanoi are in the bottom of the river, making traffic activities on the biggest river in the Northern Delta through Hanoi completely stopped.

According to Deputy Director Nguyen Lan Chau, the main reason for this situation is that this year, the flood peaks in the rivers in Northern Vietnam are small and lower than the average of nearly 1 year.

Flood peaks on the Red River in Hanoi only reached 9.52m, at an alarming rate of 1; Thai Binh river in Pha Lai is 4.05m, about 0.5m on alarm 1. The peak of the flood is small, while the Northern flood season ends soon, so the water levels of the rivers are running out.

The Central Hydrometeorological Center estimates that in the coming time, the flow of rivers in the North is likely to be 20-50% lower than the average of the same period in many years, particularly the Red River water level in the first months of the season. This winter-spring will be short of 20% -48%, leading to low water storage of many lakes.