Tuesday, December 22, 2020, 12:34 GMT+7
A woman carries her children to school in Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of December 22, 2020. Photo: Le Phan / Tuoi Tre
Residents in Ho Chi Minh City had to put on extra layers of clothing on Tuesday morning as a shower brought by a tropical depression caused temperatures in the southern city to dip.
The weather in Ho Chi Minh City and other southern localities has been chilly and windy over the past days due to the combined effects of Storm Krovanh in the East Vietnam Sea and a cold front in the north, according to the southern hydro-meteorological station.
Monday, December 21, 2020, 15:01 GMT+7
A map detailing the route of Tropical Storm Krovanh in the East Vietnam Sea from December 21-24, 2020. Photo: National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting
Storm Krovanh formed from a tropical depression in the East Vietnam Sea on Sunday and is now heading toward the maritime area off southern provinces, according to the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.
The storm, the 14th to hit Vietnam in 2020, was located at 270 kilometers northeast of the Huyen Tran (Alexandra) Bank within Vietnam s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago as of 7:00 am on Monday, packing wind speed of 60-75km per hour.
It is expected to travel southwest in the next 24 hours and weaken into a tropical depression.