The Royal Irrigation Department (RID) has issued a new warning of river overflows in 11 provinces located downstream of the Chao Phraya Dam in Chai Nat Province, after the department decided to increase the discharge rate through the dam from 1,800-2,000m3/sec to 2,100-2,200m3/sec from this Thursday.

 

RID Deputy Director-General Thaweesak Thana-dachopol said today (Tuesday) that it is necessary to discharge more water as the volume of water upstream of the Chao Phraya Dam has increased due to accumulated heavy rainfall over the past several days.

 

He warned that the increased rate of discharge will cause the water level in provinces along the Chao Phraya River, namely Chai Nat, Uthai Thani, Sing Buri, Ang Thong, Ayutthaya, Suphan Buri, Lop Buri, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan and Bangkok, to increase by 40-60cm on Friday and Saturday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/warning-of-chao-phraya-river-overflows-on-thursday/

 

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So why didn't they slowly increase the discharge over the last few days?

An annual event!

I see my dong floating in mah mooban. I somehow felt happy and proud.... 

This might just be the beginning! Triple La Nina declared, last time was 1998-2001, think Southern Thailand was inundated then as well as landslides in the north 

 

Triple La Nina

Expect beaches on the west Gulf, typically Cha-Am southwards, to be inundated with tonnes of tidal-borne trash dumped into the Gulf by the rivers.

2 hours ago, ourmanflint said:

This might just be the beginning! Triple La Nina declared, last time was 1998-2001, think Southern Thailand was inundated then as well as landslides in the north 

 

Triple La Nina

Indeed it is a La Nina cycle presently - effecting weather patterns more directly than an El Nino period, especially the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Coupled with the never witnessed and fast receding glaciers and ice caps of late.....causing permanent damage to the Atlantic's salty gulf stream and future climate conditions. 

 

Notice the unexplainable extremes throughout the world - record setting flooding in some parts of the world and long stretches of heated drought in others. 

 

The end is near.

 

Why are there no tugboats tied to that bridge to push the water downstream faster!!!