19 minutes ago, novacova said:

Monsoons are troughs you mean.

Cyclones are weather systems that are cyclonic, can happen in any hemisphere in the world, a tornado is a cyclone. Typhoons originate in the west pacific. Hurricanes originate in the Atlantic.

Typically, cyclones forming in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans are called Cyclones. We've always called them Cyclones in Australia.

4 hours ago, mfd101 said:

I think I meant 'cyclones', the current example being a fairly typical northern hemisphere (counterclockwise) example.

All Northern Hemisphere cyclones (typhoons/Hurricanes) rotate counterclockwise.

Just now, JensenZ said:

All Northern Hemisphere cyclones (typhoons/Hurricanes) rotate counterclockwise.

Yes we all know, that’s what they taught us in grade school, the coriolis effect.

8 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Might need waders....

Mid thigh at my house last year. Fortunately, while we had to leave the house, move the vehicles to higher ground, the water was maybe 1 inch to reaching the height of entering the floor level that would have entered the house. Bungalow so no 2nd floor to move upstairs. Lucky, turned off the ground level air units and they were not damaged.

27 minutes ago, novacova said:

Monsoons are troughs you mean.

Cyclones are weather systems that are cyclonic, can happen in any hemisphere in the world, a tornado is a cyclone. Typhoons originate in the west pacific. Hurricanes originate in the Atlantic.

 

A monsoon is a major system that features a seasonal shift in prevailing winds because of temperature differentials over sea and land. Monsoon winds always blow from cool to warm. In the case of the SE Monsoon, warm, moist air from the Indian Ocean flows towards the Indian sub-continent and SE Asia, giving huge amounts of rain, especially near the eastern Himalayas as the warm air rises.

 

Cyclones - my bad - in the Indian Ocean (N. Hemisphere) Cyclones are also called that same name. However, Typhoons often originate in the mid Pacific and Hurricanes usually originate in the equatorial eastern Atlantic, near west Africa.

 

Far off, as I sat and wondered, the lightning did not thunder; it was heat lightning, so I thought....several hours ago.

 

But now, the storm quickens, and grows closer.

The thunder grows grosser, rumbling, ever louder,

Though, really, not very loud at all.

 

A typhoon is not just an atmospheric depression....

And, have we ever been blessed with a typhoon before?

Never before.

 

Thinking about what might soon be upon us, the first typhoon of the inland mountains....

I shudder, knowing what might be, if were were by the shore.

 

I see the wind, that furious spirit of the open ocean, losing its maritime dominion yet finding a new and more insidious form of malice in this mountain-hemmed basin. It is no longer a horizontal fury, a clean and howling force, but a monstrous, spiraling weight that descends from the high, grey-green peaks, twisting and tearing at the flimsy, sun-bleached world of Chiang Mai.

 

The very smoky air, once thick with the scent of jasmine and the low hum of life, becomes a suffocating presence, a heavy, damp shroud that clings to the skin and steals the breath from the lungs, minus the salt spray of Conrad's days.

 

Our village world, a place of stable ground and ancient forests, now trembles in a deep, subterranean dread, but only in my mind, before this windy typhoon force. The trees, especially the FICUS trees, the stoic guardians of the hillsides, thrash like madmen, their broad leaves ripped to confetti, while the river Ping, a benign serpent in the dry season, rises in a brown, roaring monster, its belly swollen with the sins of the mountain which has no sin.

 

Oh Conrad.....

Your dreams are the Heart of Darkness, come to visit us.

 

But where in this typhoon is the salt-spumed horror of the sea that we read about?

 

How can we have a typhoon without the sea, the warmth of the sea.....to fuel the winds?

 

But no:  We are only suffering a land-locked tempest where the earth itself, in a convulsion of rain and mud and wind, seeks to swallow man's futile constructions,, and the very ground on which we stand. In this typhoon-beleaguered Chiang Mai the storm becomes an elemental assault on a world that has forgotten the raw terror of nature.

 

Will we ever stop the burning of coal...before....

It's too late?

 

Let the Ping run free.

And, we are blessed to not live in Miami, or in Florida....

 

 

 

 

Windy.com.  Right now.  The wind has subsided as it moves overland, but here comes the wet.  (This is the rain layer)

 

7 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

A typhoon is not just an atmospheric depression....

And, have we ever been blessed with a typhoon before?

Never before.

 

Rare yes but never? Sadly no.

 

Typhoon Gay originated in the Gulf of Thailand in November 1989 and intensified rapidly, resulting in 11-m-high swells and 275 offshore fatalities from capsized vessels, including the drillship Seacrest. RIP. The storm caused high winds and swells along much of the Gulf of Thailand coast. Winds increased to 185 km/h at landfall, elevating the typhoon to Category 3 status. There was widespread destruction close to landfall in Chumphon Province, where around 450 deaths were directly attributed to the storm.

 

Fatalities totaled more than 800, making Typhoon Gay one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in Thailand's history.

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025322715300876

 

The storm emerged into the Bay of Bengal and gradually reorganized over the following days as it approached southeastern India. On 8 November, Gay attained its peak intensity as a Category 5-equivalent cyclone with winds of 260 km/h (160 mph). The cyclone then moved ashore near Kavali, India.

 

5 hours ago, impulse said:

Windy.com.  Right now.  The wind has subsided as it moves overland, but here comes the wet.  (This is the rain layer)

 

 

Thanks. More plss than wind. Looks like Surin stayed unaffected

1 minute ago, nauseus said:

 

Thanks. More plss than wind. Looks like Surin stayed unaffected

 

I'm wondering about the next few weeks as the water runs downcountry.  I haven't been following the preparations, like emptying some of the reservoirs in advance. 

 

I'm just recalling my first year working in Bangkok. 2011.

 

21 hours ago, Surasak said:

Accuweather is about as much good a the proverbials on a fish. I cannot remember the last time I had a reasonably accurate weather forecast from them

 

 

I just use the https://weather.tmd.go.th/bma_ncLoop.php website, I check the loop of the radar and keep track of weather in my area when I need to do something outside. All the weather sites here trying to predict the weather are next to useless.

On 8/25/2025 at 9:43 AM, ezzra said:

At first glance, I misread the headline as: Tycoon Kajiki Prompts Thailand to Prepare for Impact

and I was like, who's Tycoon Kajiki? silly old me.

 

We got nothing here.

 

Better to have named it Typhoon Trump.

It's already TACO'd.

22 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Rare yes but never? Sadly no.

 

Typhoon Gay originated in the Gulf of Thailand in November 1989 and intensified rapidly, resulting in 11-m-high swells and 275 offshore fatalities from capsized vessels, including the drillship Seacrest. RIP. The storm caused high winds and swells along much of the Gulf of Thailand coast. Winds increased to 185 km/h at landfall, elevating the typhoon to Category 3 status. There was widespread destruction close to landfall in Chumphon Province, where around 450 deaths were directly attributed to the storm.

 

Fatalities totaled more than 800, making Typhoon Gay one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in Thailand's history.

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025322715300876

 

The storm emerged into the Bay of Bengal and gradually reorganized over the following days as it approached southeastern India. On 8 November, Gay attained its peak intensity as a Category 5-equivalent cyclone with winds of 260 km/h (160 mph). The cyclone then moved ashore near Kavali, India.

 

 

My meaning, obviously, was that, in CM, we will never have a typhoon, with giant waves.

 

Anytime a typhoon hits land, cyclonic winds become disrupted.

 

 

20 hours ago, novacova said:

Yes we all know, that’s what they taught us in grade school, the coriolis effect.

Apart from the statement being incorrect, as few people would know this or even care about it, it was not a reply to you, but rather someone who made an ambiguous statement about the spinning direction of cyclones. 

3 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

My meaning, obviously, was that, in CM, we will never have a typhoon, with giant waves.

 

Anytime a typhoon hits land, cyclonic winds become disrupted.

 

 

It wasn't a strong typhoon to begin with, but it quickly became a tropical storm near landfall.

1 hour ago, JensenZ said:

It wasn't a strong typhoon to begin with, but it quickly became a tropical storm near landfall.

 

As usual.

 

AND, as usual, it will be the water, not the high winds, which cause most havoc.

 

This will be my 45th Typhoon, even though, where I am, this is sort of a non-typhoon.

 

It will be the rain, the everlasting rain, that makes us worry....especially if this cyclone does not get on the move.

 

Speaking of Typhoons....

 

I recall that we would have tea with Typhoon Sugar on Toast, during any decent typhoon, in Hong Kong.....

 

 

 

1 hour ago, impulse said:

 

I'm wondering about the next few weeks as the water runs downcountry.  I haven't been following the preparations, like emptying some of the reservoirs in advance. 

 

I'm just recalling my first year working in Bangkok. 2011.

 

 

Always a gamble due to the unpredictable nature of these events. 

 

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

My meaning, obviously, was that, in CM, we will never have a typhoon, with giant waves.

 

Anytime a typhoon hits land, cyclonic winds become disrupted.

 

 

 

If you had mentioned CM before, then I might have been able to figure that out.

14 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Always a gamble due to the unpredictable nature of these events. 

 

 

For the past untold millennium....

 

Weather has been unpredictable.

 

However, weather is becoming even more unpredictable ....now that we are about to exit....stable period we have known....

 

 

 

And, as we ALL KNOW....

 

NOBODY likes a Dry-Smart-Ass....

 

(Dry= Dry Humor, of course, lest I need to explain it to some....)

 

 

In recent years, give or take a few thousand.....

The climate is capable of turning on a dime....

Even without anthropogenic CO2 forcings....

 

We have been very lucky, so far.

\

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

For the past untold millennium....

 

Weather has been unpredictable.

 

However, weather is becoming even more unpredictable ....now that we are about to exit....stable period we have known....

 

 

 

And, as we ALL KNOW....

 

NOBODY likes a Dry-Ass....

 

 

 

 

 

Great diversion.....by about 10,000km and 10,000 years! Awesome.

2 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Great diversion.....by about 10,000km and 10,000 years! Awesome.

 

Wrong....

 

Tipping points happen suddenly, and not slowly.

 

Surely, you must have researched this by now.

 

Some indication of last year in Nan vs just a few weeks ago.

 

Last year my truck was safe....  not so fortunate this year.

 

 

Just now, dingdongrb said:

Some indication of last year in Nan vs just a few weeks ago.

 

Last year my truck was safe....  not so fortunate this year.

 

 

 

Just now, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Wrong....

 

Tipping points happen suddenly, and not slowly.

 

Surely, you must have researched this by now.

 

 

You are diverting yet again. You have just added in the term "tipping point" from nowhere.

 

I'm right and I have studied the earth and its paleoclimate extensively.

 

The OP concerns typhoons near Thailand. You are already far off topic as usual.

On 8/25/2025 at 10:51 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

My lawn is completely saturated, with major puddles in places.

The clay is not porous.

We should plant more trees.

Mix some sand with it, you Cheap Charlie.

10 minutes ago, dingdongrb said:

 

 

Sorry about that. 

5 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Off topic again but I agree. Have a banana to keep you  going.

 

The banana plants will soon be suffering if this incessant rain keeps up, and causes flooding.

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2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

My meaning, obviously, was that, in CM, we will never have a typhoon, with giant waves.

 

Anytime a typhoon hits land, cyclonic winds become disrupted.

 

That's what western (mountainous, too) North Carolina thought.  I think they're still digging out from Helene.

 

16 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

That's what western (mountainous, too) North Carolina thought.  I think they're still digging out from Helene.

 

 

The storm surge from that hurricane might have been about FIVE MILES, perhaps, TOPS.

 

And, as you know, maybe you might NOT know....

 

Chiang Mai is about...

 

 

I guess we won't have no tsunamis anytime soon.

 

Have you ever visited CM?

Very far from the coast....

Believe me....

 

NOT like the areas in NC...hit by Helene....

BY A LOOOONG SHOT.....