Floods Affecting Thailand Nationwide

[george]

Floods affecting Thailand nationwide

SI SA KET: -- Floods are continuing in varied areas of Thailand, with critical needs in some areas due to more overflowing torrents, while the national weather service warned that the weather system from China now covers the North and Northeast.

A ridge of moderate high pressure from the Asian land mass is covering much of Thailand north and east of the capital.

In the northeastern province of Si Sa Ket, second round of flash flooding has hit Si Sa Ket municipality. Inundation in some areas is over two metres deep due to the overflowing waters of the Mun River causing residents to move their valuables to higher ground.

In Phitsanulok’s provincial seat and Bang Rakam district over 30,000 rais (about 12,000 acres) of flooded paddy fields meant that farmers were unable to harvest their crops in time, meaning that they have lost most of their annual income. The farmlands now smell of rotten rice.

Provincial officials are planning a long-term solution against the flooding and to allocate budget for a flood retention area project known as Kam Ling (Monkey's Cheeks).

In nearby Kamphaeng Phet province, incessant rain and the accumulated run-off from several other northern provinces quickly raised water levels in the Yom River, triggering flash run-offs overflowing into many houses as well as agricultural areas.

Meanwhile, floodwaters in Sam Ngam district of Phichit is more than two metres high.

Villagers used boats for transport and moved valuables to the roadside.

In Kanchanaburi province west of Bangkok, officials in Sai Yok, Thong Pha Phum and Sangkhla Buri districts warned motorists and drivers to drive carefully due to poor visibility from a dense fog covering the areas.

Meanwhile, the Meteorological Department warned that the ridge of a moderate high pressure weather system from China now covering the Northeast and the North of Thailand is causing thundershowers temperature drops one 1-3 degrees Celsius.

Meanwhile, torrential rain and isolated heavy rainfall is likely with winds in lower central, eastern and southern Thailand.

Tropical Storm Parma in the mid-South China Sea centred about 200 km east of Hainan Island, China. It is expected to be downgraded to become a tropical depression and will make a landfall at Hainan later on Monday.

-- TNA 2009-10-12

[yut]

will pattaya, phuklet be affected at of this latter part of month?

[bkkjames]

will pattaya, phuklet be affected at of this latter part of month?

Only if global warming keeps heating up and the oceans keep rising mate.

[SM7WGP]

Send some to Chiangmai we really need some water up here

[PoorSucker]

Send some to Chiangmai we really need some water up here

555, make fun next time you or someone you know gets hit by floods.

[sokal]

will pattaya, phuklet be affected at of this latter part of month?

Only if global warming keeps heating up and the oceans keep rising mate.

Global warming.. haha, thats a good one :D

[Loyhaasip]

Floods affecting Thailand nationwide

SI SA KET: -- Floods are continuing in varied areas of Thailand, with critical needs in some areas due to more overflowing torrents, while the national weather service warned that the weather system from China now covers the North and Northeast.

A ridge of moderate high pressure from the Asian land mass is covering much of Thailand north and east of the capital.

In the northeastern province of Si Sa Ket, second round of flash flooding has hit Si Sa Ket municipality. Inundation in some areas is over two metres deep due to the overflowing waters of the Mun River causing residents to move their valuables to higher ground.

In Phitsanulok's provincial seat and Bang Rakam district over 30,000 rais (about 12,000 acres) of flooded paddy fields meant that farmers were unable to harvest their crops in time, meaning that they have lost most of their annual income. The farmlands now smell of rotten rice.

Provincial officials are planning a long-term solution against the flooding and to allocate budget for a flood retention area project known as Kam Ling (Monkey's Cheeks).

In nearby Kamphaeng Phet province, incessant rain and the accumulated run-off from several other northern provinces quickly raised water levels in the Yom River, triggering flash run-offs overflowing into many houses as well as agricultural areas.

Meanwhile, floodwaters in Sam Ngam district of Phichit is more than two metres high.

Villagers used boats for transport and moved valuables to the roadside.

In Kanchanaburi province west of Bangkok, officials in Sai Yok, Thong Pha Phum and Sangkhla Buri districts warned motorists and drivers to drive carefully due to poor visibility from a dense fog covering the areas.

Meanwhile, the Meteorological Department warned that the ridge of a moderate high pressure weather system from China now covering the Northeast and the North of Thailand is causing thundershowers temperature drops one 1-3 degrees Celsius.

Meanwhile, torrential rain and isolated heavy rainfall is likely with winds in lower central, eastern and southern Thailand.

Tropical Storm Parma in the mid-South China Sea centred about 200 km east of Hainan Island, China. It is expected to be downgraded to become a tropical depression and will make a landfall at Hainan later on Monday.

-- TNA 2009-10-12

70km east of Korat today very hot and sunny.

Bangkok Post makes no mention of flooding anywhere!!!

[The Mask]

will pattaya, phuklet be affected at of this latter part of month?

Only if global warming keeps heating up and the oceans keep rising mate.

Thats interesting as global warming is just another scam to get everyone to pay carbon taxes. What happened to the acid rain which was going to destroy everything around us, do you really fall for this nonsense?

[Tim207]

will pattaya, phuklet be affected at of this latter part of month?

Only if global warming keeps heating up and the oceans keep rising mate.

Thats interesting as global warming is just another scam to get everyone to pay carbon taxes. What happened to the acid rain which was going to destroy everything around us, do you really fall for this nonsense?

The coming iceage touted in the 1970's.

The whole in the ozone layer.

Acid rain.

Genetic engineered crops.

The environmentalists are always predicting imminent global calamity from something. The scary thing is people keep buying into their crap whether the science is there or not.

I am all for protecting the environment and doing things that make sense to avoid future problems but this knee jerk feel good mentality of trying to save the planet from the cause dejour is ridiculous.

BTW: This year was one of the coldest on record for large parts of the US. That is why the term global warming has now been forsaken in favor of climate change. Global warming doesn't fly when you are freezing your a55 off but if you call it climate change, well yeah, the climate changes every day and if the experts say it is bad it must be.

[rakman]

will pattaya, phuklet be affected at of this latter part of month?

Only if global warming keeps heating up and the oceans keep rising mate.

Considering the earth has been cooling for the last decade, we should see the oceans recede.

[rakman]

will pattaya, phuklet be affected at of this latter part of month?

Only if global warming keeps heating up and the oceans keep rising mate.

Thats interesting as global warming is just another scam to get everyone to pay carbon taxes. What happened to the acid rain which was going to destroy everything around us, do you really fall for this nonsense?

The coming iceage touted in the 1970's.

The whole in the ozone layer.

Acid rain.

Genetic engineered crops.

The environmentalists are always predicting imminent global calamity from something. The scary thing is people keep buying into their crap whether the science is there or not.

I am all for protecting the environment and doing things that make sense to avoid future problems but this knee jerk feel good mentality of trying to save the planet from the cause dejour is ridiculous.

BTW: This year was one of the coldest on record for large parts of the US. That is why the term global warming has now been forsaken in favor of climate change. Global warming doesn't fly when you are freezing your a55 off but if you call it climate change, well yeah, the climate changes every day and if the experts say it is bad it must be.

The annual temperatures reported by NASA which showed 1998 as the hottest year on record was flawed by a Y2K error. 1934 is still the hottest year. The IPCC "Hockey Stick" graph is a fraud. It misses the "Little Ice Age" and the "Medieval Warming Period". CO2 is not a greenhouse gas, it's a fertilizer for plants. Water vapor is a bigger green house gas. Look to the Sun for a sign.

[tracer]

will pattaya, phuklet be affected at of this latter part of month?

Pattaya No idea but as its already bad now.. Phuket, which I know far better of the two, not sure but I doubt it but obviously it depends on who build the house...

And more importantly how good a builder he was.....

Worse in my opinion is that the many building projects dump sand everywhere or better it drops off the cars so you have to drive very carefully. No idea where you live but believe me, I have never seen such a year of rain here. Started somewhere in Januari, then stopped more or less for a month, and it started again in the March...We still have rain almost daily but roads seem to be mostly unaffected (MAIN ROADS). When it rains one hasn't got the energy to start looking in obscure places! But yes, problems are possible as under normal circumstances rain stops mid December but the last 10 years very few things seem to happen on time! Personally I would expect most systems to work properly as most beach areas were hit by that Tsunami in 2004...

Only effect sofar on my house is that clearly the toilet put isn't deep enough or at least we will have to look what to change as it can be a bit frustrating when toilets donot want to flush!

[tracer]

will pattaya, phuket be affected at of this latter part of month?

Only if global warming keeps heating up and the oceans keep rising mate.

Thats interesting as global warming is just another scam to get everyone to pay carbon taxes. What happened to the acid rain which was going to destroy everything around us, do you really fall for this nonsense?

Much more chance that we are heading for a minor ice age. This was a normal thing over the years and the last one caused the bad winters the last few 100 years... However what politician wanting money from voters has a chance of getting it if he tells them they are going to be cold??? Nothing they can do about it anyway...

Main thing to remember is that humans live such short lives and written history is so short that one has to start digging to see what happened in the past... Just search the web under 'minor iceage' etc...

[lordsux]

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climat.

Is it too late?

[baht&sold]

Been raining heavy and steady since 7 AM here on Sukhumvit in Bkk. This keeps up a few more hours and the khlongs will be joining the sois... Seems Oct is usually 'the' month to get a major flood (or two, three...) Recall Hua Hin on Oct 13, 1998 - cars floating down Poonsuk...

Whatever happened to the Bangkok CCTV live cam traffic site which used to be here: http://www.gvd-tech.com/traffic.html ???

Also, any current updates from around Thailand- anyone?

EDIT to add:

Thailand weather reports in English- Thai Meteorological Department:

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

Falling Rain site:

http://www.fallingrain.com/world/TH/

Thailand weather animated/elapsed:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/busi...;animation=true

Someone's balcony view on soggy Soi 6:

http://webcam.ose-software.com/

Edited October 13, 2009 by baht&sold

[dumball]

I was in Canada for four of the summer months , had to scrounge flannel sheets off my daughter so i did not need to call a welder , remember the proverbial monkey ?