Typhoon Noru strikes Vietnam, hundreds evacuated from popular beach resort city of Da Nang

Typhoon Noru struck Vietnam within 36 hours after it destroyed the Philippines. There is was called Karding. In Vietnam, it targeted its popular beach resort city of Da Nang. It brought powerful winds and heavy rain and led to evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. It fell in a high-end Category 2 hurricane with winds of nearly 109 mph. Before its made landfall, the authorities had banned vessels from the sea and asked students to stay at home. Because of this climatic disturbance central Vietnam, southern Laos, and northern Thailand face a risk of floods over the next 48 hours. It seems about 11,000 foreign tourists and 7,000 domestic visitors are staying in the city. The government instructed thousands of boars and hundreds of thousands of laborers to move to safe shelters. Hundreds of thousands evacuated as Typhoon Noru makes landfall in Vietnam’s Da Nang. The province of Thua Thien Hue is home to more than 2,000 fishing ships and around 11,000 fishermen. It has imposed ban on vessels from going out to sea with warnings of strong winds, high waves and flooding.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh of Vietnam chaired an urgent meeting with officials from at least eight provinces. These were expected to be affected by the storm. The discussion related to response efforts. He went on to say – “Climate change is becoming increasingly extreme and unusual, causing very serious consequences.” He wanted all concerned like ministries, branches and localities, especially the heads of such units, to enhance their responsibilities in order to ensure the safety, life and property of the people and the state in the context of the weather. It seems eight people lost their lives in typhoon-related incidents. They included five rescue workers.

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Storm Eva devastates Ireland, flood warnings for Christmas

#stormdesmond #stormeva #cumbria Storm Eva has wreaked destruction on Ireland and entered Britain with flood warnings issued in the North and Scotland for late Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Armed Forces have been put on standby for a Christmas flooding crisis as the North braces for more severe weather and 700 Environment Agency staff and military personnel also being deployed to take care of eventualities.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 24 December 2015.

Nearly 2,000 customers have been left without power in Ireland as the storm crossed the country, with the worst affected areas including County Cork and County Wicklow. Eva has passed over the north of the UK, but the Army is getting ready to bolster flood defenses in Cumbria ahead of further rainfall by putting out sandbags.
as per predictions of the Met Office, 150mm of rain is expected to fall over higher ground in Cumbria with 60-80mm at lower levels and with accompanying 70mph winds.
Speaking after an emergency Cobra meeting, the Environment Secretary has indicated that and, it is possible that there will be further storms, probably on Boxing Day. The weather forecast is that the rain could be persistent and heavy, with the danger of more floods in the region, which is still trying to come out of effects of Storm Desmond earlier this month.

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