The northern region from Thua Thien-Hue province northward reaped a bumper harvest in the 2016-2017 Winter-Spring rice crop for the 10th consecutive year.
A strong cold wave is travelling from China to Vietnam’s northern region and will lead to the temperature dropping by 10 degrees Celsius, the National Hydro‑Meteorological Service has said.
People in the northern localities are bracing for another cold spell accompanied with scattered rainfall from November 1, according to the Central Hydro-meteorological Forecast Centre.
Northern localities plan to expand their combined farming area to 430,000 hectares in the upcoming winter crop, 20,000 hectares larger than the 2015 winter crop, aiming to earn up to 25 trillion VND.
Northern Vietnam will experience the strongest cold spell since the onset of winter from January 22, said the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.
The northern and north central region is likely to have cold weather during the Lunar New Year holiday, which last from Feb. 6 to 14, while fair weather is forecast for the southern region.
The inland waterway corridors and river ports in the Lach Giang estuary, worth 1.6 trillion VND (75 million USD), were inaugurated on November 22 in northern Nam Dinh province's Thinh Long town.
Moderate-to-heavy rains continued in the northern region from the evening of July 30 through the morning of July 31 and are forecast to last through August 3.
More torrential rain, forecast to be stronger than the record extensive downpour in July 1986, will hit the northern region from July 31 to August 8 with estimated rainfall of up to 300-400mm.
The National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) has made an agreement
with the 3rd Army Area on a cooperative effort to reduce haze disasters
caused by burnings in the northern region.
Heavy rains and lightning are expected to hit the northern region on
late July 4, giving local residents a respite from the extremely hot
weather that lasted nearly a week.
Heavy rain from typhoon Kujira raised river water levels and caused
flash floods in the northern mountainous province of Son La on June 24,
claiming at least three lives, including a four-year-old child, the
provincial Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control reported.