Tropical depression towards the East Sea

While Typhoon Haiyan is causing heavy rain and high winds in Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, in the East Sea, a tropical depression appears, the possibility of strengthening into a storm.

A low pressure area is forming.(Photo: .jma.go.jp)

According to the forecast of the Japan Meteorological Station, the new low pressure is formed in the southeastern Philippines and goes towards the East Sea at a speed of about 25km an hour.

On November 6, at the meetings of the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control on Storm No. 13, Mr. Bui Minh Tang, director of the Central Center for Meteorological and Hydrological Forecasting, said that this low pressure area can enter the East Sea on 13-14 November and the possibility of becoming the number 15 storm of the year.

However, the distance of the lower depression is still about 1,500km away from southern Philippines and predicts its path is still complicated.