Storm Trami will reach its maximum intensity when it approaches the Paracel Islands.

The meteorological agency forecasts that storm Trami will enter the East Sea on October 24 and reach maximum intensity of level 12 when approaching the waters of the Hoang Sa archipelago.

The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said that at 7:00 a.m. on October 23, the storm with the international name Trami (in Vietnamese, Tra Mi) was in the sea east of Luzon Island (Philippines). The strongest wind near the center of the storm was level 9 (75-88 km/h), gusting to level 11. The storm moved northwest at a speed of about 20 km/h.

Typhoon Trami will reach its peak intensity of around level 12. (Source: NCHMF)

Forecast in the next 24 hours , the storm is on the mainland west of Luzon Island (Philippines) and moving northwest, speed about 15km/h. The strongest wind near the storm center is level 10, gusting to level 12.

Storm Trami will enter the East Sea tomorrow, October 24. Also from October 24 to 26, the rain in the Central region will decrease and the weather will be sunny.

Storm Trami will reach its maximum intensity of about level 12 when it approaches the waters of the Hoang Sa archipelago on October 26.

From 72 to 120 hours , the storm will move mainly in a westerly direction, about 15km per hour, then it will likely change direction to the southwest and move more slowly.

Impact of the storm, the eastern sea area of ​​the North East Sea has strong winds of level 6-7, from the morning of October 24 increasing to level 8-9 (62-88km/h), near the storm center level 10-11 (89-117km/h), gusting to level 14, waves 4-6m high, near the storm center 6-8m, rough seas.

Assessing the weather situation from the night of October 23 to October 31 on the mainland of Vietnam, the meteorological agency said that from the night of October 24 to October 26, the North will have no rain at night, some places will have fog in the early morning, and sunny days. The night and morning will be cold, and some places in the mountainous areas will be cold. Around the night of October 26 to October 28, the Northeast will likely have scattered showers and thunderstorms, with some places having moderate to heavy rain. From October 29, this area will have rain in some places and sunny days.

Northern and Central Central regions have scattered showers and thunderstorms. Around October 26-29, these localities may experience widespread heavy rain.

South Central, Central Highlands and South regions have scattered showers and thunderstorms, around October 26-29 in the afternoon and evening there will be scattered showers and thunderstorms.

First images from the Philippines where typhoon Tra Mi passed through.