MetMalaysia issues tropical depression advisory

KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) on Friday (May 31) issued a tropical depression advisory detected at a latitude 19.0 north and longitude 112.2 east, approximately 235km northeast of Hainan, China.

MetMalaysia’s National Weather and Geophysics Operations Centre, in a statement at 9.20am, said the storm is moving northward at three km per hour (km/h) with a maximum wind speed of 56 km/h.