Ice appears in the North

Yesterday, Mau Son peak (Lang Son) temperature dropped 1 degree C, Sapa (Lao Cai) appeared frosty. Hanoi is the lowest at 9 degrees Celsius. The cold weather has no signs of ending because it is forecasted that tomorrow in some northern provinces will decrease.

Although familiar with the cold air, but Mr. Ha Van Tien, Director of Lang Son Hydrometeorological Center, still uttered through the phone: " This year is too cold ." In this province, dozens of cattle and buffaloes died of pneumonia. The number of sick people increased.

Mr. Tien said, today is the 14th day Lang Son undergoes cold and cold. The harshest is yesterday, the temperature in Lang Son city down to 4.4 degrees C, the top of Mau Son mountain (1,000 meters above sea level) to one degree Celsius.

" Normally cold weather occurs in November 11-12 of the previous year. It is dry cold, at night the temperature may drop below 4 degrees Celsius, the day is warm and only lasts a few days this year. Half a month, it rains again, the lowest temperature yesterday in Lang Son is only 4.4 degrees Celsius, the highest is only 5.2 degrees Celsius, "Tien said.

Ice in Mau Son.(Photos of dthoi.com)

Director of Quang Ninh Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Center, Mr. Nguyen Tuan Hung, also said that compared to the same period in the recent 5 years, this year was the coldest. From January 15 to now, the people have suffered from cold, damaging cold.

If in January 2006 there is only one day of temperature down to 9.7 degrees C, sooner in Ha Long city, it has dropped to 9.7 degrees Celsius, Mong Cai 7.4 degrees Celsius. lowest in this cold, by predicting tomorrow and the day after, the temperature is even lower.

In Lao Cai, Mr. Luu Minh Hai, deputy director of the provincial Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, said: "This year's cold is unusual. A cold cold usually lasts only 3 days, but today is the day. 7. The lowest temperature in Lao Cai city is 11.4 degrees C, Sapa is 2.7 degrees C ".

Mr. Hai said, snow has yet to happen, but ice has appeared."Many people mistakenly believe that snow falls with ice. Snow must be a kind of rain that comes down from the sky, and ice is formed when steam rises, meeting cold air at the surface that has condensed into tiny ice particles. They are deposited on objects, branches and ground in the form of scales, needles, feathers or fan shapes , " Hai explained.

Although Hanoi is located deep in the continent, it is 9 degrees Celsius soon after the temperature, the highest of the day is only 10.1 degrees Celsius. is 12.4 degrees C). This is the lowest temperature recorded for many years in the capital.

Commenting on the end of the cold weather, many leaders of the Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting in the North Eastern Provinces all said that no signs of malice are about to end.

Satellite images show that, on January 31, the Northeastern provinces continued to receive the intensified cold air wave, on February 3 and then February 6 (ie 30 New Year) as additional rounds . Therefore, before and during the Tet holiday, people in this area will still suffer from harsh and cold weather.

Deputy director of Lao Cai Hydrometeorological Center, Luu Minh Hai, said that the February weather is very similar to February 1968. " It is the coldest month of the year, but that year is the coldest in February. Snowfall occurs with strong and prolonged intensity ," Hai said. However, Mr. Hai does not forecast snowfall in Sapa in the coming days. "It is likely that only heavy rain will occur. That is, falling rain meets a very low ground temperature, which will condense into stone pieces, like glass," he said.

Answering about the cause of the unusual phenomenon of weather, meteorologists are quite timid. However, according to the studies on climate change in Vietnam conducted by the Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, the weather is more and more extreme.

Winter temperature decreases in the first months of the season and increases in the last months of the season. That means the winter will be cold and the season will be warmer. Drizzle decreases in North and North Central. The storm has been and will move south. The hurricane season also receded towards the end of the year.