Natural calamities are happening in Asia, killing thousands of lives and damaging billions of properties. Flash floods in Vietnam 21 people died, 500 international flight cancellations in China and 90 percent of people in Japan suffer the extreme heat.
Vietnam’s tropical depression Son Tinh killed 21 lives, landslides, and flash flooding which submerged the communities in the Northern part of the provinces of Yen Ba and Thanj Hoa. The local government team is still searching for “missing ones arranging temporary accommodation for households who have lost their homes, and actively evacuating and relocating people from dangerous areas."
The team is still working hand-in-hand in fixing infrastructures like schools, health centers, hospitals, and homes. According to Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the winds reached 32 mph or 52 kph on Sunday, 10 a.m.until Tuesday.
In China, there are 192,727 people living in temporary housing, coastal areas, and construction sites have been evacuated to Shanghai early Sunday morning. The landfall of tropical storm Ampil brings heavy rain and strong wind of 100 kph causing domestic flights and 500 international flights to cancel. Shanghai Airport Authority said that some airlines decided to cancel flights, both departure and arrival at Hongqiao and Pudong Airport on July 22 between.
"Ampil, the 10th typhoon this year, has made landfall on the island of Chongming in Shanghai at 12:30 p.m. local time Sunday (12:30 a.m. ET), packing winds of up to 28 meters per second near its eye," Municipal Meteorological Observatory stated.
The storm weakens as Ampil moves further but heavy rain continues.
The Philippine monsoon, on the other hand, had been aggravated by Vietnam’s Son Tinh and China’ s Ampil, now Josie. There are 728,000 people evacuated with 585 affected communities due to heavy rain. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration cited Josie encircling the northern island gusting up 138 kph and expected to leave the country on Monday. However, another tropical depression is cited swirling the eastern part of the country.
Japan, on the other hand, is experiencing otherwise. As of July 18, the country is suffering extreme heat causing 13 people deaths due to the heat wave. Out of the 128 million people in Japan, 110 million are affected.
“Heat indices in the mid-40s are making it nearly impossible for the body's response to properly take effect," Van Dam noted. Sweating is good just as long as the body has the ability to release it through sweating, he added.
