A team of border guards and representatives from the Cua Sot fishing port's management board in Ha Tinh province carry out a patrol in a shelter area for boats (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - Tropical storm Son Tinh, the thirdentering the East Sea in 2018, is forecast to make landfall in coastallocalities from Thai Binh to Ha Tinh on late July 18, according to the NationalCentre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
At 4:00 am of July 18, its eye was about 470km westof Hoang Sa with the strongest winds near the storm’s eye reaching 75-90km perhour.
In the next 24 hours, Storm Son Tinh is quickly moving in westerly direction ata speed of 25-30km per hour.
On its moving course, the storm caused strong rainstorms and rough sea alongthe west of the North East Sea, and high tides in coastal areas of the northernand north central region.
It will also cause heavy rains until July 20 in the northern delta and midland.
Mountainous areas in the northern and north central regionshave been put on high alert for flash floods and landslides, while flood isforecast for lowland and urban areas in the provinces of Hai Duong, Nam Dinh,Ninh Binh, Thai Binh, Hoa Binh and Hanoi, as well as localities from Thanh Hoato Quang Tri.
Localities across the northern and north central regions arebracing for the storm.
The northern province of Nam Dinh has banned ships to gooffshore as from 5am July 18, while vessels operating at sea have been asked toreturn to land or seek shelters. The provincial authorities also ordered theevacuation of workers at aquaculture farms along the coast before 12am of July18.
On July 17, the Steering Committee of natural disaster prevention,search and rescueand firefighting of the northern coastal province of Quang Ninhissued a notice on banning vessels from going offshore, and tourism boats from anchoringat tourism sites at sea as from 18pm the same day.
In the central coastal province of Quang Tri, all 2,312 fishing boats of theprovince with 7,500 labourers on board had been informed of the storm, and2,274 of them had returned to land in the afternoon of July 17.-VNA
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