23w.noname--Hagibis

[Jose]

The highest tides of 2007 are coming next week to Samui/PhaNgan (highest on Tue 27 Nov 12:22pm).

And so is tropical storm 23W.noname, expected to land somewhere north of Koh Tao on Monday 26th with 30-knot winds and high waves.

Interesting combination.

From the US Navy's NRL site:

jose '-)

[stiggy]

Taken from http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/

Ill be down the beach checking the weather at a bar for a few days....all part of the public service

[Tony121]

Ill be down the beach checking the weather at a bar for a few days....all part of the public service

Keep up the good work !

[sbk]

Both storm topics have been merged into one thread.

[BigC]

time to change my ticket again !

[emmezeta]

time to change my ticket again !

nahhh, it's getting cold at home .

the Euro is at 50 bath .

the sum is also shining from december, according to Accuwheater............

[emmezeta]

Taken from http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/

Vacation safe! Storm going north

[nonthaburial]

keep an eye on storm 24w which is right up the exhaust pipe of 23W, its possible they can merge

[theoracle]

There was one on the same track a couple of weeks ago and when they hit land in Vietnam they generally go North around the land so I doubt it will hit us.

[Jai Dee]

Both active systems have now been named... Hakibis and Mitag.

See also this thread in the News Forum.

Hakibis

Mitag

[steverino]

Batton down the hatches me harties! interesting to see where this one ends up. They say it's bigger than the last one.

http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/satell...e_animated.html

http://www.tmd.go.th/en/storm_tracking.php

[sbk]

merged into the thread already discussing this storm

[excite]

Missing us by a mile now.

No sweat

[emmezeta]

Missing us by a mile now.

No sweat

Yesss, and i've never saw a forecast for 15 days of sun in Samui.

[SamuiBond]

Causing additional panic among people thinking of wanting to come over here is always good (sarcastic). Don't you remember 'em good Berlin wall times when you were on need to know basis.

As a local I would have never known or cared but surely would have heard on a street level that storm is coming. Not that it might come if. .. Here it happens so rarely that when real wind blows by usually only boats at sea might get tripped. On the land coconut branches fly but not even shaqqy rooftops. You can hardly call those real storms but sure, waves at the see and heavy wind on the land.

Those branches you might get hit by if you're unlucky are reason to stay in when you look outside. If I understand right, thousands of people outside Samui read these comments and though your Filiphine storm was well recorded, you could have waited a couple more days before making waves. When was the last really big storm that hit Samui (not counting rain)?

Wake me up when its in Vietnam...

Edited November 23, 2007 by SamuiBond

[sbk]

Typhoon Gay, 1989 and it was not a direct hit on Samui but rather a direct hit on Koh Tao and Chumphon. But, its the last really big one that came quite close that I can remember. There was a near miss with a typhoon a couple of years ago, but as per usual, it turned north and there was very little effect here.

[Chayaphum]

RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service

Budapest, Hungary

2007-11-24 06:40:11 - Tropical Storm - Vietnam

GLIDE CODE: TC-20071124-14252-VNM

Date & Time: 2007-11-24 06:40:11 [uTC]

Area: Vietnam, Nha Trang

Description:

A tropical storm dumped rain on several south-central Vietnam provinces, disrupting coffee and oil production and endangering fishermen, officials said on Saturday. The streets of the coastal resort of Nha Trang were quiet after a night of rain, wind and waves from Tropical Storm Hagibis, downgraded from a typhoon on Friday as it changed direction in the South China Sea after hitting the Philippines. The government's flood and storm committee said nearly 31,000 people had been moved away from the coast in four provinces. Vietnam sent a diplomatic note to China about four vessels with 36 fishermen requesting shelter in Chinese territory. Authorities alerted 245,000 fishermen and most sailed out of the danger zone, government reports said. Officials in the main coffee-growing province of Daklak said light rain had kept farmers from resuming the harvest.

The disruption since Thursday at the peak of the harvest threatens to delay deliveries from the world's top robusta producer. "The rains have been light but enough to keep farmers from their harvest because even when they can pick cherries they are not able to dry them outdoors," said Van Thanh Huy, chairman of the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association. Vietsovpetro, operator of Vietnam's biggest oil field Bach Ho, said the storm was causing a production decline of 10,000 tonnes of crude oil, Saturday's Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported. The Vietnam-Russia oil and gas venture has taken 245 Russian and Vietnamese experts and workers from offshore facilities and temporarily shut crude production at Rong (Dragon) oilfield. Vietnam is Southeast Asia's third-largest crude producer. Historically, storms rarely strike in late November, the usual start of a six-month dry season.

Not confirmed information!

Chayaphum

[LaoPo]

HAGIBIS is approaching Vietnam's shore line:

http://www.tmd.go.th/en/storm_tracking.php

and:

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200723.html

Typhoon Mitag is NO problem for Thailand:

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200724.html

LaoPo

[nakchokwow]

HAGIBIS is approaching Vietnam's shore line:

http://www.tmd.go.th/en/storm_tracking.php

and:

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200723.html

Typhoon Mitag is NO problem for Thailand:

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200724.html

LaoPo

what does any of this have to do with Samui? yes this is typhoon season and they generally head in a line east to west from the pacific into the philippines...a line that is pretty much parallel with Thailand/Samui...but they almost always turn north before that. So what if one did not many years ago, big whoop, there is no indication that these storms won't also turn and the forecast is they will.

[Rooo]

HAGIBIS is approaching Vietnam's shore line:

http://www.tmd.go.th/en/storm_tracking.php

and:

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200723.html

Typhoon Mitag is NO problem for Thailand:

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200724.html

LaoPo

what does any of this have to do with Samui? yes this is typhoon season and they generally head in a line east to west from the pacific into the philippines...a line that is pretty much parallel with Thailand/Samui...but they almost always turn north before that. So what if one did not many years ago, big whoop, there is no indication that these storms won't also turn and the forecast is they will.

Maybe because of the side effects & not from being in the direct path.

Surat Thani - Thais everywhere celebrated the annual Loy Krathong festival on Saturday evening, but residents of the South were also on alert for a typhoon headed out of the Philippines with winds kicking up huge waves along the Gulf of Thailand coast.

Officials in the southern province of Surat Thani claimed they were prepared to provide safety to Loy Krathong revelers, including foreign tourists, as the Meteorological Department warned that tropical storm Hagibis might create major storms in the Gulf, including waves of 2 to 4 metres.

Source.......http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=123903

[SamuiBond]

'Phoon Gay, 1989 and it was not a direct hit on Samui but rather a direct hit on Koh Tao and Chumphon. But, its the last really big one that came quite close that I can remember. There was a near miss with a typhoon a couple of years ago, but as per usual, it turned north and there was very little effect here. '

So there you hear it! Gay was here 20 years ago. It's truly unlike to hit here any time soon(don't mix them ladyboys here). Gay - must have been some blow back then...

To my knowledge this is just about the most secure place on earth what comes to natural disasters. Find better and please post here...

[sbk]

I don't think anyone is saying it isn't, just eyeing the storms that could be headed our way. This could have easily (and may still) turn into a tropical depression that would affect us, and those, although not as windy etc can still produce major amounts of rain.

[Mark Wolfe]

The last two days in Lamai have been very hazy/smoky. Very strange, like there's a big fire somewhere....

[Rooo]

The last two days in Lamai have been very hazy/smoky. Very strange, like there's a big fire somewhere....

Is it this time of year that you get the smpke haze from Indonesia?

[nakchokwow]

HAGIBIS is approaching Vietnam's shore line:

http://www.tmd.go.th/en/storm_tracking.php

and:

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200723.html

Typhoon Mitag is NO problem for Thailand:

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200724.html

LaoPo

what does any of this have to do with Samui? yes this is typhoon season and they generally head in a line east to west from the pacific into the philippines...a line that is pretty much parallel with Thailand/Samui...but they almost always turn north before that. So what if one did not many years ago, big whoop, there is no indication that these storms won't also turn and the forecast is they will.

Maybe because of the side effects & not from being in the direct path.

Surat Thani - Thais everywhere celebrated the annual Loy Krathong festival on Saturday evening, but residents of the South were also on alert for a typhoon headed out of the Philippines with winds kicking up huge waves along the Gulf of Thailand coast.

Officials in the southern province of Surat Thani claimed they were prepared to provide safety to Loy Krathong revelers, including foreign tourists, as the Meteorological Department warned that tropical storm Hagibis might create major storms in the Gulf, including waves of 2 to 4 metres.

Source.......http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=123903

ya I saw the article too, another example of the Post being inaccurate. as I said yesterday, these storms did and will not affect us, despite what the Post "warned" about the surf, the waves yesterday weren't even one meter...BIG threat to the Loy Krathong-ers!

[sbk]

The last two days in Lamai have been very hazy/smoky. Very strange, like there's a big fire somewhere....

Is it this time of year that you get the smpke haze from Indonesia?

No, the wind is coming out of the north. Smoke haze from Indonesia doesn't arrive until March or so when the wind changes direction and comes out of the South West.

[Rooo]

The last two days in Lamai have been very hazy/smoky. Very strange, like there's a big fire somewhere....

Is it this time of year that you get the smpke haze from Indonesia?

No, the wind is coming out of the north. Smoke haze from Indonesia doesn't arrive until March or so when the wind changes direction and comes out of the South West.

Then low rolling mist, I have'nt been able to see KPG for several days.Like one of these scary movies lol.

Edited November 25, 2007 by Rooo