SITUATION
• TC DIANMU made landfall on 18 August in Guangdong (China) as a Tropical Storm; then it reached northern Vietnam on 19 August morning.
• As of 19 August morning, media reported 40 000 people evacuated and 200 houses damaged in Hainan province (China), one dead and at least 360 people evacuated in northern Vietnam.
• Over the next 48 h it is forecasted to continue moving west over northern Vietnam, northern Lao PDR and Myanmar/Burma, weakening into a Tropical Depression. Heavy rain may affect northern Vietnam, northern Lao PDR, eastern, central and western Myanmar/Burma, and northern Thailand. Floods and landslides have already affected several areas of these countries over the last month.
Sources: GDACS, JTWC, NCHMF, CMA, NASA, Media S