North to face cold season sooner and longer dry spell

 

 

Cold season will come sooner to the northern region which will experience longer period of dry season due to less than normal accumulated rainfall estimated at just 50 percent of the normal level, said Mr Methi Mahayotnant, director of the northern meteorological centre, on Thursday.

 

He disclosed that many areas in Chiang Mai and Lamphun provinces are now experiencing drought.

 

So far this year, accumulated rainfall in the North is estimated at 600 mm which is only half of the normal volume although ongoing rainy season will slightly improve the water situation.

 

Full story: http://www.thaipbsworld.com/north-to-face-cold-season-sooner-and-longer-dry-spell/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-09-21

Weird, Up here in Chiang Rai it has been a long and wet rainy season. And didn't Chiang Mai just get flooded like two days ago from the typhoon?

Here in Udon, there's been lots of rain, couple of flooded roads etc.

 

Yesterday morning, it pished very hard for 45 minutes, then after that it was a blazing hot day.

15 minutes ago, faraday said:

Here in Udon, there's been lots of rain, couple of flooded roads etc.

 

Yesterday morning, it pished very hard for 45 minutes, then after that it was a blazing hot day.

Well I am half way between Udon and Nong Khai and yes we got some good rain yesterday, the first for two weeks ! As I have mentioned in other posts in our area it is the driest rainy season in many years. Rainfall is usually is very patchy obviously but this year precipitation seems to be much more sparsely distributed.

33 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

Weird, Up here in Chiang Rai it has been a long and wet rainy season.

Which I have heard about. When the cave rescue was ongoing they often mentioned rain affecting the situation. And I keep reading newspaper reports of heavy rain and floods. But just across the hills from Chiang Rai near Tha Ton we have not had a very wet monsoon. I have watered young trees to keep them alive. I was out cutting weeds 3 days ago and the ground was rock hard after nearly a week of hot dry weather. I cant figure it out.

Here in our village in Amnat Charoen province, we have had just over 38 inches (966 mm) between July 1 and Sept 14.  A longer cool season would be most welcome!

 

There seemed to be a lot of news articles concerning flooding, dam reservoirs being overfilled, flooded streets, overflowing rivers, etc. Lucky there was only half the normal volume else it would have been catastrophic!

Dry as the Sahara Desert in Korat, Buriram and Surin. Where has the rain been. The government needs to come up with a water management and distribution system for Thailand. All the BS hype from the media and TMD this season was trash. 

4 hours ago, faraday said:

Here in Udon, there's been lots of rain, couple of flooded roads etc.

 

Yesterday morning, it pished very hard for 45 minutes, then after that it was a blazing hot day.

same where i live in Wichianburi,very hard rain then very hot. Here though we are nearly at our usual annual rainfall number,around 1,200mm

Up here in the far north it has rained at some point every day for the past month , yesterday and the day before the road into Maechan was flooded with water pouring off the mountains. , what is worse is the grass needs cutting every week but too wet to mow.

If you believe their measurements drought and flood can be so close to one another.

The image shows the deviation from long year normal rainfall up to yesterday (Sep 20).

We are in a white (normal) zone while southern Isaan shows extreme drought.

 

5 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Weird, Up here in Chiang Rai it has been a long and wet rainy season. And didn't Chiang Mai just get flooded like two days ago from the typhoon?

No it didnt and Thai weather forecasts are notoriously just speculation

 

Typhoons never get this far ,they are at worst rain depressions.In Hang Dong  slightly south of CM we just got a couple of hours of rain which was welcome as its been unusually dry and we were back to watering the garden.

Reason typhoons rarely hit Thailand directly is the geographical windbreaks such as the Philippines and Vietnam which is very fortunate. When typhoon Gay spun up in the Gulf of Thailand there was a lot of deaths and property destruction, thankfully a rare occurrence. Another big one is spinning up in the Pacific now and could turn into a rain producer here depending on high pressure cells in China (which tend to steer typhoons). A tropical depression from a downgraded major typhoon tore part of the roof away on my condo building five years ago, don't want to contemplate a storm formed in the gulf.

Been a funny year for rain in Udon. Only rained twice before Songkran, and then haven't needed to water the garden until this month! Our ponds were full by the end of June, 2 months earlier than normal. August and September are usually the wettest months here and in fact have been drier than normal, water levels have actually gone down this month and has only rained about 2-3 times a week for the past fortnight. Certainly looking like it is ending early.

 

That contour map of rainfall variation was very interesting.