The North welcomes cold air and continuous thunderstorms

According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, currently in the North there is a cold air mass moving south.

It is forecasted that tonight and tomorrow (May 12), due to the influence of cold air compressing the low pressure trough, the Northern and North Central regions will have moderate rain and thunderstorms, locally heavy rain with rainfall from 20-40mm, some places over 90mm.

The meteorological agency has also just made an assessment of the weather developments across the country in the coming days (from May 11-17, 2024). Specifically:

Northern Region: from May 11 to morning of May 12: sunny day, from evening of May 11 there will be showers and thunderstorms, locally heavy rain.

From the morning of May 12-14: sunny during the day, thunderstorms in some places in the late afternoon and night, especially in mountainous areas with scattered thunderstorms, locally heavy rain.

From May 15-16: scattered showers and thunderstorms, locally heavy rain. May 17: sunny day, local thunderstorms in the late afternoon and night.

Central Region: from May 11-16: sunny days, from Quang Nam to Binh Thuan there will be partial sunshine, in the late afternoon and evening there will be thunderstorms in some places; in the North on May 12 and 16 there will be a possibility of scattered showers and thunderstorms, locally with moderate to heavy rain.

May 17: sunny day, hot in some places; localized thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening.

Central Highlands and South: From May 11-15, sunny days, some places have hot sun, especially the Southeast region has widespread hot sun; in the late afternoon and evening there are local thunderstorms.

From May 16-17: sunny days, scattered showers and thunderstorms in the late afternoon and evening, locally heavy rain.

PrivateHanoi area: from 11 to morning of 12/5 sunny day, from night of 11/5 there will be showers and thunderstorms, locally heavy rain.

From May 12-17, sunny days, localized thunderstorms in the late afternoon and night; on the day and night of May 15, there will be scattered showers and thunderstorms, with localized heavy rain.

Please note that thunderstorms may produce tornadoes, lightning, hail and strong gusts of wind. Localized heavy rains may cause flash floods in small rivers and streams, landslides on steep slopes and flooding in low-lying areas.

More rain in the North, hot weather continues for the next month

In a further forecast, the meteorological agency said that from May 11 to June 10, the average temperature across the country will generally be 0.5-1.5 degrees Celsius higher than the average of many years.

Total rainfall in the Northern and North Central regions is 15-30% higher than the average, while the Central Central, South Central, Central Highlands and Southern regions are approximately the same as the average for the same period.

At the same time, during the forecast period, in the North and Central regions, heat waves will continue to appear, with some days being extremely hot, and some places being especially hot. In the Central Highlands and the South, heat waves will tend to decrease from around the second half of May.

Widespread rainfall is also expected to increase gradually during the forecast period in the Northern and North Central regions. During the second half of May, the Southwest monsoon is expected to become stronger, so rainfall is likely to increase in the Central Highlands and Southern regions.

Also during the period of May 11-June 10, the drought in the Central region continued, especially in the Central and South Central regions. The drought in the Central Highlands and the South tended to gradually decrease from around the second half of May, when there was more rain.

Notably, dangerous weather phenomena such as thunderstorms with tornadoes, lightning, hail and strong gusts of wind continue to occur nationwide.

In addition, there is a possibility of tropical disturbances appearing in the East Sea area, concentrated around late May and early June 2024.