A tropical storm strengthening into a hurricane is due in North Vietnam tomorrow, but should pass north of Cambodia and Thailand as it heads inland.


- Tropical Storm "Doksuri," known in the Philippines as Maring, formed Tuesday, September 12, 2017, after moving over the Philippines as a tropical depression. While slowly moving over the Philippines, this storm dumped heavy rain and caused landslides in and around capital Manila, forcing schools, government offices and businesses to shut down. It is blamed for at least 3 deaths and 13 missing people.
Doksuri is moving WNW while strengthening and is expected to pass very close to China's Hainan and make landfall, shortly after that, in northern Vietnam as a Category 1 hurricane equivalent on September 15...
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Now passing inland...

Vietnam braces for 'strongest storm in a decade'
By Agence France-Presse
HANOI - Vietnam on Thursday ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate its central coastal area as Typhoon Doksuri closed in, with officials predicting the storm could be the most powerful in a decade.

Officials ordered an offshore fishing ban, while some 47,000 people in Ha Tinh province began leaving their homes Thursday, according to an official from the Vietnam Disaster Management Authority who declined to be named.
The storm is forecast to lash four central provinces with heavy rain and winds of up to 155 kilometres per hour (96 miles per hour), according to the Hong Kong Observatory.

Vietnam issued a category four "danger" warning, the second most severe of its five-tier warning system, as disaster management officials said it will be the worst storm to hit Vietnam in 10 years...

Flashflood warnings for Thailand as Doksuri moves west.

Nationwide warning for flash floods

Breaking News September 17, 2017 16:00
The Meteorological Department has warned people in many parts of the North, Northeast, East and South regions to brace for possible flash floods due to intense rainfall from 6am on Sunday until 6am on Monday.
The widespread heavy rainfall was attributed to Doksuri, a typhoon that has already weakened into a tropical depression and low-pressure area as it moves across the northern and western parts of Thailand into Myanmar.

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Obviously Kim Jong UN has created a tesla styled weather machine and is testing it in the third world backwaters of the planet .

For those heading to central Vietnam soon, the situation is improving, but expect to find some storm damage and possible power blackouts in some areas.

HANOI, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Doksuri has killed eight people and injured 28 others in Vietnam's central region by Saturday noon, according to provincial flood and storm prevention bureaus.

Doksuri also damaged over 100,000 houses, sank ten fishing ships and boats, and undermined some 1,000 hectares of vegetables and fruit trees and cash crops, the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said, noting that most of rice crop had been harvested before the typhoon made landfall at the central region on Friday.

By Saturday early morning, broken electricity poles and transmission lines in nine central provinces had been restored, the state-owned Electricity of Vietnam said, adding that many people experienced blackouts on Friday because thousands of low-voltage poles fell or broke.