Nguyen Duc Hoa, deputy head of the agency’s Weather Forecasting Department, said that in the first half of this month, as intensive cold air tends to be weakened and deviates to the East, northern and northcentral localities from Thanh Hoa to Nghe An will see light rain, drizzle, and fog at night and in the early morning.

Meanwhile, there are possibilities that severe cold and harmful cold will appear later this month in mountainous and midland provinces, he added.

Hoa said that the average temperature across the country this month is at approximately similar to the average of many years. Particularly, in the northwest region, the common temperature is 0.5-1.5 degrees Celsius higher than the average of many years in the same period.

The total rainfall in the northwest region will be 5-10mm lower than the average of many years.

Other areas will see a higher rainfall than the average of previous years, especially this year’s rainfalls in the southcentral and southern regions will be 20-40mm higher than the average of many years in the same period./.