At the meeting to celebrate the World Meteorological Day 2016 held on March 23 in Hanoi, Deputy Director of the National Centre of Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Le Thanh Hai warned that an historic flood is predicted to occur in Vietnam in the second half of this year.
A predicted flood will be similar to the flood that hit the Central region with 2,000 mm of rain in 1999, Hai noted and adding that the most severe drought in 100 years is forecasted to end by June.
According to the statistics, the flood that striked the Central region in 1999 killed 595 people and caused a loss of over 3.7 trillion VND.
Hai said, rains are predicted to fall with higher frequency.
If the La Nina phenomenon that cools the ocean surface along the tropical Pacific coast of South America, comes right after the El Nino in the second half of this year, an historic flood may occur in Vietnam in June, he said.
According to the Deputy Director of the National Centre of Hydro-meteorological Forecasting, irregular weather phenomena are also expected.
Hai said the biggest flood in the past 40 years hit the norther province of Quang Ninh last August with maximum rainfall of 1,600mm, however there was no rain at all in central Ninh Thuan Province last September.
They are typical examples of an irregular weather phenomenon, he stressed.
Addressing the meeting, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Chu Pham Ngoc Hien asked the Hydro-meteorological sector to integrate hydro-meteorology into the national plan to implement the Paris Agreement on Environment, adopted in Paris last December by 195 nations.
The National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting expects natural calamities in Vietnam will become more complex and acute moving forward.
A predicted flood will be similar to the flood that hit the Central region with 2,000 mm of rain in 1999, Hai noted and adding that the most severe drought in 100 years is forecasted to end by June.
According to the statistics, the flood that striked the Central region in 1999 killed 595 people and caused a loss of over 3.7 trillion VND.
Hai said, rains are predicted to fall with higher frequency.
If the La Nina phenomenon that cools the ocean surface along the tropical Pacific coast of South America, comes right after the El Nino in the second half of this year, an historic flood may occur in Vietnam in June, he said.
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Hai said the biggest flood in the past 40 years hit the norther province of Quang Ninh last August with maximum rainfall of 1,600mm, however there was no rain at all in central Ninh Thuan Province last September.
They are typical examples of an irregular weather phenomenon, he stressed.
Addressing the meeting, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Chu Pham Ngoc Hien asked the Hydro-meteorological sector to integrate hydro-meteorology into the national plan to implement the Paris Agreement on Environment, adopted in Paris last December by 195 nations.
The National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting expects natural calamities in Vietnam will become more complex and acute moving forward.
