6 hours ago, webfact said:

Flood woes will ease, if rains cease, says Chatchai

I bet they also predict less rain next month....the start of the dry season:) 

One smart cookey

6 hours ago, Dexlowe said:

The floods will ease if rains stop? Nah, that defies normal Thai logic.

Genius. No more rain, no more flood.  I bow to your brilliance. 

However, I'd like to see the original Thai press clipping. No-one can be this silly.

11 minutes ago, DavisH said:

I bet they also predict less rain next month....the start of the dry season:) 

Start of the Cool season.

11 minutes ago, jgarbo said:

Start of the Cool season.

November is still quite hot. If it does cool down its usually late December / Jan. That's BKK; the north can cool down earlier. Our sports Day is late Nov. and it's always quite hot then. 

6 hours ago, Dexlowe said:

The floods will ease if rains stop? Nah, that defies normal Thai logic.

It is perfectly logical.

It also implies, like it or not, humans can not control nature in whatever way.

Even in the Netherlands, a country renowned for its water management, be it sea or rivers, nature defies all things built by humans to control water.

What Thailand needs, upstream, is millions of trees to hold the rainwater, wide riverbeds and overflow areas, and Bangkok to be made a huge polder and, yes, the river needs much more room and huge dikes.

It might be advisable to dig stream channels to lead river water around Bangkok polder......

Just now, DavisH said:

November is still quite hot. If it does cool down its usually late December / Jan. That's BKK; the north can cool down earlier. Our sports Day is late Nov. and it's always quite hot then. 

The current temperature is irrelevant. This is now the Cool season, after Ook Pansaa. Official, not temporal. 

1 minute ago, hansnl said:

It is perfectly logical.

It also implies, like it or not, humans can not control nature in whatever way.

Even in the Netherlands, a country renowned for its water management, be it sea or rivers, nature defies all things built by humans to control water.

What Thailand needs, upstream, is millions of trees to hold the rainwater, wide riverbeds and overflow areas, and Bangkok to be made a huge polder and, yes, the river needs much more room and huge dikes.

It might be advisable to dig stream channels to lead river water around Bangkok polder......

I remember King Canute explaining this once. 

9 minutes ago, DavisH said:

November is still quite hot. If it does cool down its usually late December / Jan. That's BKK; the north can cool down earlier. Our sports Day is late Nov. and it's always quite hot then. 

Thanks for the information. I've been here 35 yrs but always want to learn more.

Edited October 19, 20178 yr by jgarbo

How smart is that sherlock,,,People never would have know that, when it stops raining the flood waters will subside.Isn't he a genius (:

How exactly do you brace yourself for flooding,hold on to a pole or tree or something.

7 hours ago, petedk said:

If the sun shines the temperatures will rise

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And, once the sun goes down in the evening, it cools off.....

We could get a job working for the RID....

Give the man a medal, please, will you?

Agriculture and Cooperative Minister General Chatichai Sarikulya enlightened the specialists by  revealing that floods will ease if rain ceases.

Nothing learnt from 2011 - 2013 then - it seems 

Assuming he went to school, I hope he didn't pay too much for it.

It IS funny, and fun to poke fun, but after reading the article it seems the point may be that it will take about a month for everything to settle ONCE the rains have ended. Just another possible interpretation.
Could be another instance of journalistic amateurism, or insufficient English language skills.