VOV.VN - A senior meteorologist has said there has been an increasing number of extreme weather patterns such as unseasonal cold spells and record-breaking rainfall happening right in the middle of summer in recent times, raising public concern about a powerful impact of climate change.

Vietnam is set to experience an intensified cold wave in February, with prolonged periods of severe cold expected, meteorologists warned on February 1.

VOV.VN - Thunderstorms accompanied by hail struck several districts of Hanoi capital on April 20 evening.

Vietnam saw a total of 930,000 children having to leave their homes in the six-year period between 2016 and 2021 due to extreme weather phenomena such as floods, storms and drought, according to a new UNICEF report released on October 6.

It is no longer the common climate change, as scientists have heightened the alarm, using the term ‘climate extremes’ to refer to unexpected and extreme occurrences of calamities.

VOV.VN - In the event that sea levels rise by 1 metre, it will engulf 47.29% of the Mekong Delta area, approximately 17.15% of the area of Ho Chi Minh City, and 13.20% of the Red River Delta area, according to the 2020 climate change scenario.

Extreme weather conditions are becoming more common regionally and globally and have greatly affected Vietnam, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha told lawmakers in Hanoi on November 5.