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[digger70]

22 hours ago, CGW said:

Sounds like a great plan! the current dams are dry, lets put more in so that they will also be dry?

Imagine the outcry from the experts on TVF then ???? 

You're so Negative, no good talking to you 

[Yorkshire Tea]

41 minutes ago, digger70 said:

You're so Negative, no good talking to you 

He's history for me, too.  Another of "TV's argue with their own shadow brigade", now on my ignore list ????

[digger70]

Just now, Yorkshire Tea said:

He's history for me, too.  Another of "TV's argue with their own shadow brigade", now on my ignore list ????

Thanks 

[billd766]

On 5/9/2020 at 6:49 PM, CGW said:

Sounds like a great plan! the current dams are dry, lets put more in so that they will also be dry?

Imagine the outcry from the experts on TVF then ???? 

Thailand can build as many dams as it likes. Unfortunates Mother nature controls the weather and especially the rain. So all the politicians etc can pontificate as much as they like as it is meaningless to Nature.

 

What they could and should have been doing is digging out the silt etc and deepening the existing dams back towards what they used to be.

 

The word I was looking for is dredged but I couldn't remember it.

Edited May 10, 2020 by billd766
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[billd766]

11 hours ago, Yorkshire Tea said:

Where are the empty dams, apart from next to your house?  No empty dams where I live.  All the reservoirs I've visited or seen photos of are nowhere near empty.  Low, but they usually are at this time of year, end of dry season.  Building more dams would increase capacity, since, at the moment rain runs off into the rivers. 

Have a look at these 2 links for the majority of dams in Thailand.

 

Look for the dam nearest to you and click on it to open it up. You can then see its current status and records going back a few years. You can also check if the RID management has been economical with the truth.

 

 http://www.thaiwater.net/DATA/REPORT/php/rid_dam_1.php?lang=en

 

http://www.thaiwater.net/DATA/REPORT/php/show_sm_dam.php?lang=en

 

 

[CGW]

1 hour ago, digger70 said:

You're so Negative, no good talking to you 

Good Lord above! what a drama queen, can't handle the truth, need to share a pot of tea with your mate and come up with more totally illogical "plans" what a pair of ?

PS. Just found a dummy on the floor, not sure which of you it belongs too or if you were sharing - binned it! ???? 

Edited May 10, 2020 by CGW

[RPCVguy]

2019 was an El Nino year. That translates to more rain for the eastern Pacific, and less for Australia and SE Asia. 2020 was forecast to be a neutral year, and the first rains for us arrived mid-April (which is why Song Kran is timed then - the beginning of the rains beginning a new year of planting. [Note that in La Nina cycles the western Pacific gets more rain, and the rainy season starts earlier - like in March.]

This year should have a consistent length of rainy season, though warmer oceans and air mean the rains will potentially be heavier. NOAA won't forecast the coming Sept-December pattern until June... but a new algorithm now claims the ability to forecast a year ahead.

"The discovery of the new method was first published in 2013 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal - and the scientists have since been checking its accuracy. "   ... "The next expected El Nino, due to peak in late 2020, could push global average annual temperature rise to a new record in 2021, the researchers said."
►https://uk.reuters.com/article/global-weather-elnino/scientists-predict-el-nino-in-2020-based-on-earlier-warning-method-idUKL8N27L4UY

 

Forewarned allows preparation. There will be average to above average rainfall in this rainy season and high prospects of drought in 2021 as extra heat evaporates off water in reservoirs and rivers... with lower rainfall. Translate that into how to monitor water retention vs releases this year so as to be topped off wot the likely long dry season starting on November and running into 2021... especially if the NOAA forecast confirms an El Nino in their forecast as well.

[digger70]

15 hours ago, CGW said:

Good Lord above! what a drama queen, can't handle the truth, need to share a pot of tea with your mate and come up with more totally illogical "plans" what a pair of ?

PS. Just found a dummy on the floor, not sure which of you it belongs too or if you were sharing - binned it! ???? 

  ????

[bodga]

On 5/9/2020 at 5:06 PM, CGW said:

Not a lot of point building more reservoirs in the North east, can't fill the ones that exist now, the largest has been near empty for two years.

They can draw all the plans up they won't but if there is no rainfall, as has been the situation for the last few years?

Nothing stays  the same though and at some point it  will rain,  better  to  have too  many than not enough.