Bebinca, the tropical storm, originating from the south of China’s Guangdong Province, is expected to carry winds blowing at 75 kilometers per hour, causing heavy rain in affected areas, which could deposit 250-350mm of rainfall on northern Vietnam when it hits the region on Thursday.
The storm is moving towards the Gulf of Tonkin at five kilometers per hour and is expected to hit northern Vietnam’s coastal provinces on Thursday afternoon, Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting reported.
Northern Vietnam should expect heavy rainfall from Wednesday night to Friday, Weather experts said.
Bebinca’s trajectory as forecast by Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
Right now, the East Sea is also harboring two other storms, Yagi and Leepi, this is the fourth storm to form this year in the East Sea.
Son Tinh storm hit northern and central Vietnam last month, triggered floods and landslides that killed at least 27 people.
A record-breaking 16 tropical storms hit Vietnam in 2017, leaving 389 people dead or missing and injuring 668 others, mostly in northern and central regions. The General Statistics Office estimated damage at around VND60 trillion ($2.64 billion), 1.5 times the previous year’s figure. VNExpress – a local media reported.
One of the most destructive storms last year was Damrey, the 12th major storm to hit Vietnam in 2017, made landfall with winds of up to 90km/h that damaged more than 40,000 homes, knocked down electricity poles and uprooted trees and killed at least 106 people.