Parts of Bangkok hammered by hail

By THE NATION

 

photo credit: @khanathit_hui on Twitter

 

Bangkok residents excited by the unusual sight were on Friday (October 4) swapping photos and videos online of hail falling in some parts of the capital.

 

Heavy rain that led to flooding in Pratunam, Phaya Thai and Siam districts came complete with a hammering of hail.

 

Hail forms in towering, saturated thunderclouds with strong updrafts, but the temperature is low enough to freeze water droplets that are so large and heavy they escape the updrafts and plunge to the ground.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30377077

 

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HAIL??????? and you still need 'Air conditioning'????? LOL.......

Is this something that the 'present Phayut Gov't' ordered??????

Sure hope the new Naval chief's residence is ok

Hopefully, it will hail away the pollution and the haze

It hails in the deserts of Saudi and hails in Dubai.  It's not the first time it's hailed in BKK and certainly won't be the last.

Normal, nothing at all unusual about high altitude hail making its way from a Cu Nim to the ground, even in the tropics, or perhaps even more likely in the tropics at specific times of the year.  

It is rumored that Prayut was in the area humming "Hail to the Chief"

 

Hail to the Chief who chose himself for the nation,

Hail to the Chief! If you don't, I will adjust you.

Hail to the Chief, as I destroy our foundation...

 

...and then it hailed.

 

 

1 hour ago, Pilotman said:

Normal, nothing at all unusual about high altitude hail making its way from a Cu Nim to the ground, even in the tropics, or perhaps even more likely in the tropics at specific times of the year.  

Come on it's hardly an everyday occurrence is it?  I don't remember ever hearing about hail in Bangkok in all the time I've lived here.  

So I would say it is unusual.

14 hours ago, sawadeeken said:

HAIL??????? and you still need 'Air conditioning'????? LOL.......

Is this something that the 'present Phayut Gov't' ordered??????

yes to break up the pollution !!! he works wonders, like arresting polluting vehicles....!!

8 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Come on it's hardly an everyday occurrence is it?  I don't remember ever hearing about hail in Bangkok in all the time I've lived here.  

So I would say it is unusual.

i have never seen HAIL down here in Patts/jomtien in 10 yrs I have been here. So i would say very unusual in a temperate country.

Have heard they get some in chiang mai from time to time.....

17 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Come on it's hardly an everyday occurrence is it?  I don't remember ever hearing about hail in Bangkok in all the time I've lived here.  

So I would say it is unusual.

Okay

I understand that Thai vehicles are made of lighter gauge tin than North American vehicles. I've seen some pretty serious damage on North American vehicles so I imagine same or worse in Bkk.

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

It is rumored that Prayut was in the area humming "Hail to the Chief"

 

Hail to the Chief who chose himself for the nation,

Hail to the Chief! If you don't, I will adjust you.

Hail to the Chief, as I destroy our foundation...

 

...and then it hailed.

 

 

I was thinking that Prayut and his cohorts started sing  ' Hail hail the boys are here '.

We had hail up here about 5 years ago, I was surprised by the noise volume , looked outside and my TW was collecting the balls of ice , I think she even put some in the feezer . But only that one time, so is rare up here .

1 hour ago, josephbloggs said:

Come on it's hardly an everyday occurrence is it?  I don't remember ever hearing about hail in Bangkok in all the time I've lived here.  

So I would say it is unusual.

555 !! Just WAIT until it SNOWS Then.......

1 hour ago, essox essox said:

i have never seen HAIL down here in Patts/jomtien in 10 yrs I have been here. So i would say very unusual in a temperate country.

Have heard they get some in chiang mai from time to time.....

Yep, They in CM Even get FROST In their COOL Season.......WOW !!

4 hours ago, HHTel said:

It hails in the deserts of Saudi and hails in Dubai.  It's not the first time it's hailed in BKK and certainly won't be the last.

Or a Thai Airways flight discharging .....????

2 hours ago, neeray said:

I understand that Thai vehicles are made of lighter gauge tin than North American vehicles. I've seen some pretty serious damage on North American vehicles so I imagine same or worse in Bkk.

Nope.

Yank tanks are made from 4 layers of tin foil glued together with wallpaper paste.

13 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Come on it's hardly an everyday occurrence is it?  I don't remember ever hearing about hail in Bangkok in all the time I've lived here.  

So I would say it is unusual.

2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and at least 3 times in Thailand this year (2019)

 

That's just reported ones.  There are probably more that didn't warrant a report.

Just now, HHTel said:

2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and at least 3 times in Thailand this year (2019)

 

That's just reported ones.  There are probably more that didn't warrant a report.

In Bangkok?

Not all in BKK. Certainly some would have been. I didn't check all of them.  However, this year has seen hail twice in BKK.  The last one being in April.

 

Feb this year it hailed in Udon Thani province.  According to reports some were as large as lemons and caused a lot of damage.

1 minute ago, HHTel said:

Not all in BKK. Certainly some would have been. I didn't check all of them.  However, this year has seen hail twice in BKK.  The last one being in April.

 

Feb this year it hailed in Udon Thani province.  According to reports some were as large as lemons and caused a lot of damage.

Hail up north is an almost annual thing.  But in my 24 years in Bangkok this is the first time I've heard of it happening here.

I stand by my "it's unusual" comment and you have hardly proven it wrong.

If the size of the hail was a soft ball size or at least a golf ball size and solid,

it might do damage. By the looks of those pea sized hail, an umbrella would not

have even been damaged. Rare event, but hardly damaging by the looks of its.

Good experience for those who have not seen it over there.

Geezer

On 10/4/2019 at 1:46 PM, snoop1130 said:

 

Bangkok residents excited by the unusual sight were on Friday

If they took up Chistianity in a big way it could have hammered down with frogs like it did in the Bible .. 

1 minute ago, Justgrazing said:

If they took up Chistianity in a big way it could have hammered down with frogs like it did in the Bible .. 

Are you saying our frog-kissing PM could be a potential christian convert?

Just now, bluesofa said:

Are you saying our frog-kissing PM could be a potential christian convert?

Blimey I never thought of that .. with Chair P's patronage it really could be all hail the croaking amphibian .. 

3 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Blimey I never thought of that .. with Chair P's patronage it really could be all hail the croaking amphibian .. 

Yes, with the emphasis on the word 'hail' obviously. Ha ha ha!