Phuket’s wet season peaks now

[snoop1130]

 

Phuket has two seasons… either hot and dry, or hot and wet. Maybe there’s a few months where it’s hotter than the rest of the year (some call that a third season for the island). But most of the time it’s just reliably hot and tropical.

 

The wettest time of the year is called the wet season, the green season, the rainy season or monsoon. It will rain during the wet season, sometime with torrential downpours. Other times it will just disrupt what you’re doing for a very short time. The locals will reach for their 20 baht 7-11 ponchos or an umbrella in their bag, and continue on with day. If it’s a heavier shower, they’ll duck under cover and wait for it to pass, checking in with their social media as the rain buckets down.

 

Thailand, and Phuket’s, weather is driven by an annual monsoon cycle. It sweeps out of the Indian Ocean from the south west for half of the year. And for the other half, hotter, drier air get dragged down from the north east and the Asian continent.

 

By Peter Roche

Caption: PHOTO: Phuket's rainy season

 

Full story: Phuket GO 2023-09-21

 

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[hotchilli]

Hot and wet is the preferred season.

[sikishrory]

Is this the twilight zone? 

No mention in the entire article that we've barely had any rain this monsoon season?

How do you publish an article in the latter half of September calling September the wettest month when we've only had a few serious rain days the entire month.

A realistic article would note that the raining season has yet to really kick off at all this year. Yes we had patches of days here and there but the majority of it has been blistering hot summer days. 

It's the weirdest monsoon I can remember. Hopefully there is a lot more rain to come before the end of October so we can get some in storage before all the hotels and tourists drain it all again in a few months.

A few years in a row like this and Phuket will be in crisis (again).

[Tropposurfer]

Robin W said it best:

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=good+morning+vietnam+hot+n+wet+scene&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU964AU964&oq=good+morning+vietnam+hot+n+wet+scene&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAHSAQoxNTM4NWowajE1qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:86036f79,vid:OXR0uoxUvaw,st:0

 

We get on da plane da plane! A leave for dryer climes each monsoon.

[Seeall]

2 hours ago, sikishrory said:

Is this the twilight zone? 

No mention in the entire article that we've barely had any rain this monsoon season?

How do you publish an article in the latter half of September calling September the wettest month when we've only had a few serious rain days the entire month.

A realistic article would note that the raining season has yet to really kick off at all this year. Yes we had patches of days here and there but the majority of it has been blistering hot summer days. 

It's the weirdest monsoon I can remember. Hopefully there is a lot more rain to come before the end of October so we can get some in storage before all the hotels and tourists drain it all again in a few months.

A few years in a row like this and Phuket will be in crisis (again).

simple, the weather here is minimally change compared to other parts of the world..... which is changing....