Typhoon Utor with gale-force winds of up to 150kph is heading towards the Philippines’ Luzon island and is expected to enter the East Sea on August 12. The National Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre reported that Utor, the strongest of its kind in the region this year, was 480km away from Luzon on the morning of August 11, packing winds of 149kph near its centre. Utor is travelling quickly to the west at a speed of 20kph and is forecast to regain strength when it enters the East Sea on August 12, with winds roaring up to 166kph near its eye. In an urgent telegram on August 11, the National Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control said this is a powerful and complicated storm. It asked coastal provinces from Quang Ninh in the north to Phu Yen province in the central region to inform offshore fishing vessels of the direction of the typhoon and another tropical low depression in the East Sea to avoid the danger zones. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat asked the National Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre to keep a close watch on the further development of the super storm to release immediate warnings. Meanwhile, a tropical low depression is causing rough seas and heavy rains in the northern part of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago. The depression is slowly moving west and is forecast to dump heavy rains on the central coastal provinces from Binh Dinh to Khanh Hoa in the coming days. The administrations of these provinces have recalled fishing vessels ashore and reinforce caged fish farms in the event of the depression. Utor is the third storm to hit the East Sea in the past two weeks. Meteorologists predicted that there would be 7-8 more storms and depressions to be formed in the East Sea from now till the end of this year, and half of them would affect Vietnam. Source: VOV |
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