AUGUST 17, 2016, WEDNESDAY
Tropical storm DIAMMU is imminent in the South China Sea south of Hong Kong-Macau coast of Guangdong province coast of China.
It is a low pressure area presently. NOAA calls it Invest 95W.
By tomorrow it will have intensified into a tropical cyclone.
It will move west through Haikou, Hainan island on Thursday and enter the Gulf of Tonkin.
It will make landfall into northern Vietnam on Friday, August 19, 2016, with winds of 80-100 km/h. But latest forecast says it might be 140-150 km/h winds as the typhoon is expected to intensify rapidly before hitting Vietnam. A central minimum pressure of 970 hPa. Powerful storm.
It will weaken into a persistent low pressure area as it moves through Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar. It will reach Indian Northeast and Bangladesh on August 21-22.
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