Reed grass is flowering in the fields around Da Nang, and Tuổi Trẻ reports that local farmers read it as a sign the flood season is over. The saying goes "when the reeds bloom, the storms and floods are done", though the paper notes that in some past years big floods came after the bloom.
Trương Xuân Tý, deputy director of the city's Department of Agriculture and Environment, said El Niño has kept October rainfall below the yearly average. Many hydropower and irrigation reservoirs are still low. He expects two to three heavy-rain episodes in November and hopes they will refill reservoirs ahead of the 2027 growing season.
The Da Nang hydrometeorological station, citing the Central Region forecast, expects rainfall 20 to 40% below average from 26 October to 26 November. For the whole season the Da Nang plain is forecast to receive 350 to 600 millimetres.
The outlook gives a 96% probability of a very strong El Niño from November 2026 to January 2027, up three points on the previous forecast. Nationwide, November is expected to run 1 to 2°C above average, and December and January 0.5 to 1.5°C above.
Storm activity from November to January is forecast to be below average, against a normal 2.8 storms in the East Sea and 1.1 landfalls. Cold air should also be weaker, with two to three surges affecting Da Nang, though brief strong cold spells remain possible. The paper says El Niño should weaken from February to April 2027 and may linger into early summer before conditions return to neutral.
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