Meteorologists at Viet Nam’s National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF) are monitoring a new tropical depression which has formed in the open waters of Eastern Philippines.

The tropical disturbance will likely to become a new named storm on Sunday or Monday, October 17 as it enters the East Sea, and NCHMF is keeping an eye on its long-term path.

Potential tropical storm with high chance of development is expected to become the sixth storm to enter the East Sea so far this year.

National forecasters said that a continental tropical high-pressure system is likely to move southward into Viet Nam from China on Sunday, October 16, and the cold front will then begin to affect Northern region. There is possible interaction of the cold front with the potential tropical storm No.6, making the development of the potential storm in the East Sea very complicated in the coming days.

Chances for La Niña in the country are expected to gradually decrease from 80-90% from now through January 2023 to 50- 60%, meteorologists at NCHMF said.

The national weather service predicts 3-5 named storms and tropical depressions that will enter or develop in the East Sea from now until April 2023, of which about 2-3 are likely to hit the country, mainly Central and Southern regions.

Forecasters issue warnings for storms, tropical depressions, heavy rains and torrential floods to Central Viet from now until late 2022. In January, 2023, a tropical cyclone will likely to develop in the Southern part of the East Sea, and it coud affect southern region.

Accumulated rainfall forecast in November 2022 will be a 15 - 30% rise for North Central Coast, a 30-60% rise for the Mid-Central region and South Central Coast, over 70% rise for isolated places compared with the average amount in the corresponding periods of the previous years.

Reporting by baotintuc – Translating by H.L