(VOVworld) – Due to the impact of intensified northeast monsoon, Meo Vac district in Ha Giang province has seen snowfalls since January 24. Ho Mi Vu, Chairman of Can Chu Phin commune’s Farmers Association, said this has been extremely cold weather in several years. Teacher Nguyen Danh Toan of Can Chu Phin secondary school said he came here in 2000 and this is the first time Meo Vac is blanketed with snow. The temperature ranges from 0 to minus 2 or 4 DC in some places.

Snowfalls have covered the mountains, fields, gardens, houses, and mountain.

 The local people’s lives, production, and livestock have been severely affected.           

Meo Vac people use hot water to restart vehicle

Authorities in these localities have focused on measures to ensure people’s health, while directing farmers to protect cattle and farming land from the severe cold.

People collect grass to cover the huts

Children keep warm at home ...

and play around their houses