Dry season yes ?

Hardly raining every day, I've been here a month and it's rained about 4 days...typical Jan-Feb for me (wish it rained more to cool the place down)

Heavy rain and thunder now, where I am south of Pattaya

I sincerely hope this isn't a replay of 2011, but as a precaution I've started to peruse Lazada for boats.

The dry season ends just about now and we are in transition. But hot and rainy is coming. With the rains it sadly indicates that the cool dry season is over.  Tropical weather in a nutshell.

8 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Heavy rain and thunder now, where I am south of Pattaya

Send some of it our way. Definitely needed here (Isaan)

1 hour ago, Rimmer said:

Heavy rain and thunder now, where I am south of Pattaya

To the north too.... scared yesterday's supper out of me.

Global wetting

Actually agree

Unusually wet for this time year in Prachuap 

Partly due to climate change and seasons shifting? Clearly, the time of the three seasons mentioned in books and online is outdated. 

Precipitation

1 hour ago, aussiexpat said:

Hardly raining every day, I've been here a month and it's rained about 4 days...typical Jan-Feb for me (wish it rained more to cool the place down)

Weather forecast for Bangkok, last time I checked, was 'rain every day for a week or so', but in fact it rained just for half an hour one morning, and the other days it was cloudy, but no rain.

Out on the Darkside it's been raining with thunderstorms on & off most of the day so far.

34C and not a cloud in the sky in Chiang Mai

 

Showing "unhealthy" air on some of the AQI sites and Doi Suthep is starting to disappear.

2 hours ago, MJCM said:

Send some of it our way. Definitely needed here (Isaan)

I think the rain is coming over our way as well

 

(Khon Kaen Rain Radar from 5 minutes ago)

 

 

 

Global warming. Or maybe global cooling. No, wait, let's hedge our bets and blame it on climate change, you can't go wrong with that catch-all.

Or I suppose it could just be the weather being quite variable, as it used to be before someone decided that we had to be able to blame somebody for everything.

very unusual, because la nina finished already the last year and this year suppose to be dry.

Looks, like winds are coming from the south, bringing moisture from the ocean. That pattern suppose to start in April.

Prevailing winds suppose to be now from north-east, continental weather from china, dry and cold air.

I would not complain that much for some clouds, random drizzle. Less fires, less pollution from china, less small particles in the air. Also some vegetation to lower dust.

Possibly rain load for this whole year would be spread more evenly, so only good from it 

 

Heavy rains on the Southern Gulf Coast the last weeks, when it is supposed to be the driest month of the year.

10 minutes ago, MarcelV said:

Heavy rains on the Southern Gulf Coast the last weeks, when it is supposed to be the driest month of the year.

I think December and January qualify above February as "driest month of the year" in Pattaya.

 

Bring on the March heavier rain ????

2 minutes ago, aussiexpat said:

I think December and January qualify above February as "driest month of the year" in Pattaya.

 

Bring on the March heavier rain ????

I mean the other side of Thailand, the coastal areas of Songkhla, Pattani and Narathiwat in the Deep South. February's supposed to be the driest month in this region. November and December are the wettest ones traditionally.

We have had heavy rains forecast for the last 3 days. 

First 2 days the Post office must have been delivering it , as it didn't arrive.....????

About an hour ago it started raining softly but steadily.

 

Usually we don't get any rain until Mid to late March.

2 minutes ago, MarcelV said:

I mean the other side of Thailand, the coastal areas of Songkhla, Pattani and Narathiwat in the Deep South. February's supposed to be the driest month in this region.

Well this is in the Pattaya forum ???? 

 

Still little rain in Central Pattaya, supposed to be raining all day according to weather forecast, maybe 5 minutes of light rain at 10am...

 

Just now, aussiexpat said:

Well this is in the Pattaya forum ???? 

Are we non-Pattaya dwellers not welcome? ????

I saw posts from Isaan and Northern Thailand expats already. Just wanted to chime in from the Deep Restive Muslim South.

Last week was over Sukhothai way and there it often had sporadic night rain. On the journey back to Korat area passed through frequent showers and puddles all the way. I can not remember a year when it had more than a very rare shower before mid March.

On 2/14/2022 at 2:45 PM, The Hammer2021 said:

Precipitation

Correct, its been precipitating it down here by the bucketload for the last week.

8 hours ago, MarcelV said:

Heavy rains on the Southern Gulf Coast the last weeks, when it is supposed to be the driest month of the year.

 It should be western winds now, not eastern. 

On 2/14/2022 at 2:41 PM, poohy said:

Actually agree

Unusually wet for this time year in Prachuap 

Full day in Hua Hin and its more on the way. Windguru - Hua Hin

Personally never seen similar mid February here.????

Kanchanaburi - bucket loads of the wet stuff today , 2 days ago and a week before that. More forecast for next 5 days. 

Definitely an early ‘break’ here.

So this year at least no drought warnings..... when will the soapies reopen?

My pool is overfull the koy pond is ready to over top and the grass just keeps on growing, cut it two times in one week this week ☹️