Life in the fog, 5 degrees Celsius cold

HA GIANG - The temperature remained low all day, and thick fog forced people in the border district of Quan Ba ​​to wrap themselves in blankets and buy extra clothes to protect themselves from the cold.

The North entered the sixth day of the cold spell, with average daily temperatures of 13 degrees Celsius or lower.

At 10:00 a.m. on January 27, in the center of Nghia Thuan commune, Quan Ba ​​district, 1,080 meters above sea level, the temperature was about 9 degrees Celsius. Three hours ago, it was 5 degrees Celsius, with 90% humidity. Heavy rain and dense fog limited visibility, with faces about 2 meters apart.

Quan Ba ​​has an average altitude of 1,000-1,600 m, many areas are covered with dense fog, making it difficult to travel and affecting daily life. Locals said that this year the cold weather came late, and the thick fog only appeared in December. The fog lasts continuously for 3-4 months, with rare sunny days in winter.

Despite the cold, Nghia Thuan residents still brave the rain to go to the weekly market - the backward market. This week the market is on Saturday, next week it will be on Friday, and the week after that it will be on Thursday. People bring agricultural products and livestock to sell, buy clothes and supplies for Tet, or buy extra blankets and warm clothes to protect against the cold.

Hieu sells blankets and mattresses around the markets in Nghia Thuan, Tung Vai, and Quan Ba. Each session, he sells 4-5 pieces, priced at 150,000-200,000 VND each, twice as much as in previous years.

Mr. Lo Sao Chinh, his son and mother went to the market to buy food for Tet. With 5 children in the family, he bought an extra thick mattress because for the past few days "it's been freezing cold, hard to sleep, had to burn wood stove in the middle of the house all night".

Giang Ngoc Ha, 13, and Giang Ngoc Son, 8, were taken to the market by their mother to buy more warm clothes. Dang Thi Hanh used her savings of one million VND to bring three more chickens to the market and sold them for 560,000 VND, buying all the warm clothes for her four children. She will go to the market next week to buy candy and Tet items.

Trang Thanh Thao Vy, 6 years old, wrapped herself in a blanket to keep warm and followed her mother to the market to sell goods. Her mother, Nguyen Thi Nhan, said that this year's winter came late but was cold and long.

Mr. Ma Xin Sai walked from Na Cho Cai village to the market to play with his two dogs, Minh and Gau. Both of them were attached to their owner, often following him when he cut grass, went to the market, and went to the fields.

After selling all the Tet incense, Ms. Dang Thi Phuong carried the table and chairs, put on a raincoat, and wrapped a scarf around her face to keep warm on the way home.

Lo Chan Dinh looked up at the sky in dismay, complaining that the clothes had not dried for nearly a week, while the house did not have a dryer. "No matter how you dry the clothes, they still smell musty," Dinh said.

Vu Cu Lanh, a resident of Moi village, checks the cow barn before the expected cold spell from January 29. He has not been to the fields for a week because the cold and the heavy rain have made the slopes slippery. He and his wife only leave the house to cut grass for the cows and pick vegetables for the pigs, things they "cannot avoid". Having grown up in Quan Ba ​​for 43 years, Lanh finds "the weather increasingly difficult to understand, some years before Tet there is hail, some years there is snow, some years it is too cold".

The reserve grass was gone, so Ma Xin Sai chased the three cows up the hill to feed them, taking advantage of the fact that the temperature had risen 2-3 degrees Celsius compared to two days ago.

The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting recorded that 11/25 provinces and cities are currently experiencing cold weather below 10 degrees Celsius, concentrated in the northern mountainous region. Today and tomorrow, the entire northern region will continue to experience severe cold, with average daily temperatures ranging from 15 to 13 degrees Celsius by January 29.

Giang Huy - Hong Chieu

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