Bangkok Flood Satellite Image

[melsnet]

First satallite image I have seen of the extent of the flooding. ( Bangkok is an island.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15489415

Edited October 28, 2011 by Tywais
Fixed link

[MJCM]

If I see that BBC Sat image, there is also a real chance of Chachoengsao and then Chonburi Province flood.

[RickBradford]

@MJCM

I travelled the road from Bangkok to Chonburi this afternoon and could see absolutely no water in places where it shouldn't have been.

It is an area with numerous irrigation ponds and other deliberate bodies of water, but none of the klongs were over their banks, and even the Bangpakong river was well under control.

Chonburi town was so hot and dusty you would think there was a drought on.

The only chance of Chonburi flooding is if Yingluck chooses it as her new Flood Operations HQ -- the water seems to follow her around.

EDIT: In short, that BBC satellite image looks rather overblown -- maybe a Photoshop job.

Edited October 28, 2011 by RickBradford

[MJCM]

^ @RickBradford, thanks for clearing that up

[jamesbrock]

It is simply a re-coloured capture of the following website (which was linked to in this thread last Sunda):

http://cernunosat05....ch/gp/flex/tha/

@MJCM

EDIT: In short, that BBC satellite image looks rather overblown -- maybe a Photoshop job.

It's definitely overblown - if you zoom into Suvarnabhumi, you'll notice both runways are apparently flooded. This hasn't changed since the weekend...

[jeffgood]

Are you discussing the image at the bottom of the link page? i.e. the one which says potential flood levels?

[PattayaParent]

@MJCM

I travelled the road from Bangkok to Chonburi this afternoon and could see absolutely no water in places where it shouldn't have been.

It is an area with numerous irrigation ponds and other deliberate bodies of water, but none of the klongs were over their banks, and even the Bangpakong river was well under control.

Chonburi town was so hot and dusty you would think there was a drought on.

The only chance of Chonburi flooding is if Yingluck chooses it as her new Flood Operations HQ -- the water seems to follow her around.

EDIT: In short, that BBC satellite image looks rather overblown -- maybe a Photoshop job.

Exactly what I thought as I travelled from Bangkok to Pattaya last week and there were no signs of flood. A lot of the area around Bangkok and heading to Chonburi is fish/shrimp and salt farms and rice paddy so you would expect to see a lot of water there normally. Obviously the BBC doesn't know this and their 'Man in Bangkok' has probably never left the Press Club Bar.

[MJCM]

Are you discussing the image at the bottom of the link page? i.e. the one which says potential flood levels?

They seem to have changed the image. The original image was this one