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Rains to come late this year: Phuket Met

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Rains to come late this year: Phuket Met 

By The Phuket News

 

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The average rainfall and temperatures for Phuket from 1981-2010. Image: TMD
 

PHUKET: The Phuket branch of the Thai Meteorological Department (Phuket Met) has warned that the annual rains that usually arrive with the southwest monsoon may be late this year due to the El Nino global weather pattern.

 

“The southwest monsoon usually begins sometime between mid- to late April or early May, depending on the year, but this year we expect the rains to come late,” Sorot Sawatdiraksa, a meteorologist at the Southern Meteorological Center (West Coast), based at Phuket International Airport, told The Phuket News.

 

“This year El Nino is not so strong, already making the amount of rainfall we have had this year less than in the past few years,” Mr Sorot said.


Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/rains-to-come-late-this-year-phuket-met-70817.php#cPRklSO1f19h8Fru.97

 

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-- © Copyright Phuket News 2019-03-23

 

Is this the same Met Office that issued a warning for summer storms in Phuket a few weeks ago?

By the way, the word Rain has no plural unlike raindrop which can be raindrops. 

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Oh cool-what is the date on that

exactly?

19 hours ago, mickymouse1 said:

By the way, the word Rain has no plural unlike raindrop which can be raindrops. 

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Rains

The rains - the season of heavy rainfall, esp in the tropics. 

9 hours ago, seahorse said:

Rains

The rains - the season of heavy rainfall, esp in the tropics. 

" I bless the rains down in Africa "  Toto .....just saying. ????

On 3/23/2019 at 3:10 PM, LivinginKata said:

Phuket can expect much more drastic water shortages ...

 

And not just mains water. Also tankers struggling to fill up with water. 

I guess the rain last night was to be expected after the story at the top ofthe page. Hopefully a bit more to come and knock the dust down. the roads need a good drenching to wash the accumulated crap off them- gonna be (even more) dangerous for a bit.

The Indian Met office SW monsoon forecast is that it will arrive in India at the normal time.

I trust the Indian Met office far more than the Thai counterpart.

 

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