Cold spell to hit the northern Vietnam

This picture taken on January 3, 2019 shows a Vietnamese woman collecting dried incense sticks in a courtyard in the village of Quang Phu Cau on the outskirts of Hanoi. – In Vietnam’s ‘incense village’, hundreds of workers are hard at work dying, drying and whittling down bamboo bark to make the fragrant sticks ahead of the busy lunar new year holiday. Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP

HÀ NỘI — A cold spell is forecasted to hit northern region on Tuesday evening, lowering temperatures of Hà Nội and surrounding localities to below 15 degrees Celsius.

According to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, temperatures in the mountainous areas will be between eight and eleven degrees Celsius. High mountain regions could fall below eight degrees Celsius.

The cold spell will bring rain to Hà Nội in the coming two to three days.

Rain is also predicted in other northern and central localities with the expected daily volume ranging from 30 to 70mm. Mountainous provinces of Điện Biên, Lai Châu, Lào Cai and Hà Giang are expected to be engulfed by more than 100mm of rain each day.

The cold spell will cause rough seas and strong winds in the Tonkin Gulf and the northern part of the East Sea, including the Hoàng Sa (Paracel) Archipelago, the centre said.