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On the afternoon of October 20, Typhoon Saudel with winds of 75 km / h (level 8), about 200 km off the island of Luzon, Philippines, is expected to enter the East Sea tonight.
The National Center for Meteorological and Hydrological Forecasting said that tonight and tomorrow the storm will follow the northwest direction, travel 20-25 km every hour, enter the South China Sea and become the eighth storm in the rainy season. this year.
At 13:00 in the morning, the center of the storm is about 650 km from the Hoang Sa archipelago, the strongest wind is 90 km / h, level 8-9, two levels increase.
Planned route and area affected by Typhoon Saudel. Image: NCHMF.
The next two days, the storm is heading west, every hour is 15-20 km and is likely to increase. At 13:00 on October 22, the center of the storm was about 280 km from the Hoang Sa Archipelago to the southeast, the strongest wind was 100 km / h, level 10.
Tran Quang Nang, Head of the Weather Forecast Department at the National Hydrometeorological Forecast Center, said that when it reaches the Hoang Sa archipelago, the storm will slow down, the intensity and the orbit will change. It is possible that the typhoon directly affected the Central region on October 24, causing rains in provinces from the southern North Delta to the North and Central Central.
Radio Japan said that this afternoon the strongest wind of Typhoon Saudel was 65 km / h, today entering the East Sea, on October 23 reaching 111 km / h. Hong Kong radio predicted that the storm would enter central Vietnam, when in the middle of the East Sea the wind force peaked at 120 km / h, then gradually decreased.
East Sea Storm Hazard Zone in the next 24 hours (high wind level 6, shake level 8 or higher) from latitude 14.5 to 18; from the 116th to the 120th meridian. Ships operating in hazardous areas are at high risk of being affected by strong winds.
In the past two weeks, there have been two tropical depressions in the East Sea and two storms that affected Vietnam causing heavy rains, floods and landslides. They all develop from low vortices in the tropical convergence connecting from the Bay of Bengal, which runs through Central and Philippine waters.
At the end of October 19, the number of deaths from floods in 10 provinces of the central and central highlands was 102, the number of missing persons was 26.
