The Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation of Thailand has started an urgent campaign to make artificial rain in the face of widespread drought in many areas although it’s now the rainy season in this country.
The death toll in a powerful storm that triggered landslides and flash floods in the Philippines has risen to 126, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on January 6.
Four people were killed in landslides and thousand others fled their homes after tropical low pressure Usman swept through the central Philippine islands on December 29.
Storm Son Tinh is forecast to hit coastal areas from the northern province of Thai Binh to the central province of Quang Binh on the evening of July 18, sustaining wind speeds of 62-74km per hour.
Sweltering temperatures flirting with 40 degrees Celsius are blistering northern and central regions, and the region is forecast to sizzle until this weekend.
The hot spell in the northern and central regions over the past days will continue until the weekend, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
The hot spell in the northern and central regions over the past days will continue until the weekend, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).
Typhoon Nock-ten, the 10th storm to hit the East Sea in 2016, will gradually abate in the next 12 hours, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
Seven more locals went missing in the central province of Phu Yen due to floods caused by heavy rains over the past few days, raising the number of missing victims in the region to eight.
Quang Ninh province's historic rainstorm this week severely disrupted the area's coal supplies, and could temporarily shut down several thermal power plants.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat on December
11 ordered the southern central provinces of Khanh Hoa and Ninh Thuan to
be on full alert for typhoon Hagupit, which is likely to make landfall
in the southern central area on the night of the same day.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat has asked
authorities in the central and southern regions to evacuate locals to
safe grounds and ban vessels from going to sea on December 11, as
typhoon Hagupit is likely to land in the southern central area on the
night of the same day.
The Steering Committees of Flood and Storm Control, Search and Rescue
from Quang Tri to Ca Mau, and ministries have been requested to stay
alert to the powerful typhoon Hagupit which is forecast to enter the
East Sea on December 8-9.
Typhoon Kalmaegi, bringing heavy rain and cyclones, swept through a
number of northern localities in the past two days, flooding thousands
of hectares of rice and causing damage to aquaculture farms.
Vietnam is on high alert as typhoon Kalmaegi is forecast to make landfall between the northern province of
Quang Ninh and the central province of Nghe An on September 16.
The Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control and
the National Committee on Search and Rescue on November 4 issued an
urgent notice urging coastal provinces to brace themselves for the
coming tropical storm Krosa and following storms.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development cum Head of the Central
Committee for Flood and Storm Control Cao Duc Phat chaired a
meeting in Hanoi on November 2 to map out measures against the coming
tropical storm Krosa.
Nine Vietnamese fishermen who were rescued by the Philippine Coast
Guard last week are in good health, the Vietnamese Embassy in the
Philippines said on Feb. 22.
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