New cold spell to send temperature below 10C in northern region

The cold air is predicted to affect northeastern provinces from December 27 and every province in the northwestern, northern, and north-central region from December 28.

Northeastern provinces and Thanh Hoa province will turn cold on December 27 with the lowest temperatures of 17-20C, while the lowest temperature in the northern mountains will range between 15-18C.

Temperatures will drop further on December 28 with the lowest temperature to be 11-14C.

From December 29, the north and north-central region are forecast to be very cold with the lowest temperature between 8-11C, while temperatures in mountainous areas are expected to hover between 4-7C and even below 3C in high mountains.

The Northern mountainous region is likely to see snow and frosts from the night of December 28 – 31, while other northern and north-central provinces will have rains from December 29-30.

The cold weather is forecast to last until January 3-4, 2019.

Hanoi is forecast to turn cold from December 27 with the lowest temperature between 10-13C on December 29.