Floods on a large scale: Continue to appear new tropical depressions

Due to the impact of low pressure and especially the impact of the storm No. 3, in recent days, the provinces of Thanh Hoa and Yen Bai have experienced big floods, flood, flash floods, landslides causing serious damage, making 36 people died and went missing.

In addition, the North Central and Northern provinces have had heavy rains, causing flooding in many localities such as Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Thai Binh, Nam Dinh, Hoa Binh and Yen Bai.

In the coming days, flooding is very complicated, high risk of flooding, flash floods, landslides, widespread flooding; in the East Sea, there is a risk of tropical depression, storms .

Power to save people, evacuate people from dangerous places

Armed forces participated in overcoming the consequences of flooding in Van Chan district (Yen Bai) on July 22.(Photo: SON TUNG).

Following the direction of the Prime Minister, the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and the provinces in the northern and northern Central provinces focus on overcoming the consequences of storms. , flood, immediately implement the plan to cope with dangerous natural disasters that may occur when two tropical low pressures are forming and dangerous and unpredictable.

The Prime Minister asked ministries, relevant agencies and localities to strictly implement the Prime Minister's Directive No. 19 / CT-TTg dated July 13,2018 on prevention of flash floods, landslides and landslides. .

On July 22, a new tropical depression near the shore puts the risk of flooding continuing.
In Yen Bai - the locality is considered the most serious damage to people in the last flood, the report of Yen Bai Provincial Party Committee (as of 7:00 PM on July 21) - said: 10 floods have caused deaths, 8 missing people and 11 wounded people; 3,877 houses were damaged, 1,915ha of agricultural area and many irrigation works, transportation and telecommunications were affected, initial losses were about VND 200 billion.

Yen Bai province has mobilized more than 17,000 people and maximized the means, implemented synchronously measures to find missing people. For the damaged families, initially, Yen Bai province decided to support 10 million VND / person for households with dead or missing people; VND 3 million support for injured people; support VND 25 million for families whose houses are swept away, completely collapsed; VND 10 million support for families with badly damaged houses; support families who have completely collapsed 15kg of rice / person / month (in the short term within 1 month) for people to stabilize their lives and production.

Photos dissolved in Ban Noi (Yen Bai) after the flash flood.(Photo: SON TUNG).

News of tropical low pressure near shore

At 07:00 on July 23 , the position of the tropical depression center was about 19.8 degrees Vi Bac; 109.8 Kinh Dong, on the northern area of ​​Hainan Island (China). The strongest wind in the area near the center of the tropical depression is level 6-7 (40-60km / hour), level 9. The range of strong winds of level 6, level 8 is about 60km from the tropical depression.

Dangerous zone in the sea for the next 24 hours (strong wind level 6 or higher): the area north of the Gulf of Tonkin (north of latitude 19.0 degrees North latitude).

It is forecasted that in the next 24 hours , tropical depressions will move mainly in the north every 5-10 hours. At 07:00 on July 24, the position of tropical depressions is about 21.5 degrees north latitude; 109.8 Kinh Dong, on the northwestern area of ​​Leizhou Peninsula. The strongest wind in the area near the center of the tropical depression is level 6-7 (40-60km / hour), level 9. The level 6 strong wind, level 8 is about 50km from the tropical depression.

Location and direction of tropical depression.

Due to the influence of tropical depressions in the Gulf of Tonkin (including Bach Long Vi island district), there are strong winds of level 6, shock level 8 and strong thunderstorms. The sea is rough.

Disaster risk level: level 3.

In the next 24 to 48 hours , tropical depressions moved west-northwest, 10km per hour and weakened into a low pressure area.

In addition, due to the influence of the tropical convergence band combined with the southwest monsoon, it is active so day and night (July 23), in the North Sea (including the Paracel Islands), The waters from Binh Thuan to Ca Mau, Ca Mau to Kien Giang and the Gulf of Thailand continue to have strong thunderstorms. In the Middle and South Sea (including the Spratlys waters), the waters from Binh Thuan to Ca Mau continue to have strong Southwest wind at level 6, shock level 8, high waves from 2-3m; rough sea.

Disaster risk level: level 1.