HANOI, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese northern area has been warned of floods and landslides caused by heavy rains due to impacts of a depression, according to Vietnam's National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting on Wednesday.
Since Tuesday night, Vietnamese northern localities have suffered from heavy rains of up to 85 millimeters. The rainfall is forecast to increase to some 250 millimeters.
From Wednesday to next Monday, water level on northern Hong-Thai Binh river system's upstream is forecast to rise by two to five meters, causing floods, said the center.
Mountainous areas are warned of landslides.
The two typhoons that hit Vietnam in late July and early August left 20 people dead and missing, 82 others injured, causing damage of more than 6.7 trillion Vietnamese dong (some 300 million U.S. dollars), according to Vietnam's Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD).
Shortcomings in weather forecasting have been blamed for the huge losses, according to Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung.
