According to the Central Center for Meteorological and Hydrological Forecasting, in the early morning of January 4, after entering the western area of ​​the No. 1 Spratly Islands, it weakened into a tropical depression.

At 4 o'clock on January 4 , the position of tropical depression is about 11.7 degrees Vi Bac; 111.8 Kinh Dong, about 300km from the mainland of Phu Yen-Ninh Thuan provinces to the East. The strongest wind in the area near the strong tropical depression center level 6-7 (40-60km / hour), level 9 shock.

It is forecasted that in the next 12 hours , tropical depressions will move in the West direction, then it is possible to change the direction of moving West-West Southwest every hour to 20 km and weaken into a low pressure area.

Storm No. 1 weakened into tropical depression, the North continued to have small rain images 1
The path and location of the storm.(Source: nchmf.gov.vn).

By 16 o'clock on January 4 , the central position of the low pressure area is about 11.3 degrees Vi Bac; 109.3 degrees Kinh Dong, on the waters of Ninh Thuan-Ben Tre provinces. The strongest wind in the center of the low pressure area falls below level 6 (ie below 40 km / hour).

West of the Middle East (including the area in the northwest of the Spratly Islands) has heavy rain and thunderstorms; strong wind level 6-7, level 9 shock. Level 3 disaster risk level.

On land, in the early morning of January 4, the Northern provinces continued to have small rain, the temperature increased by 2 degrees compared to January 3 but did not exceed 23 degrees C.

The capital of Hanoi is a small rain, with a slight wind. Cold weather. Moisture from 70-98%. The highest temperature is 20-23 degrees Celsius, the cold night is 16-19 degrees Celsius, the other places in the North are cold at 16-19 degrees Celsius, the mountains are below 15 degrees Celsius.

Thanh Hoa to Thua Thien-Hue has fog in the early morning, a few rainy days, the highest temperature is 20-23 degrees C, the night is cold 16-19 degrees C.

Due to the impact of tropical depression, the provinces from Da Nang-Binh Thuan will have rain and moderate rain; Local areas where heavy rain and thunderstorms occur, temperatures decrease commonly from 23-28 degrees C, cold nights are 20-23 degrees C.

Central Highlands has scattered showers, daytime temperatures drop by 1 degree compared to 3/1, popular 24-27 degrees C, cold nights 16-19 degrees C.

Nam Bo sunny day 29-32 degrees C, in the evening there are showers and thunderstorms in some places, cool nights 22-25 degrees Celsius, but still need high tide when the water level on most rivers in Nam Bo is 4 1/1 exceeded the alarm 3 from 0.1-0.15m, the risk of deep flooding in low-lying areas along the river, including Ho Chi Minh City.