Warning: Flash Floods To Hit Most Of Thailand On Sep 2-5

[Thai at Heart]

Thailand's flood prevention systems are designed to improve water management and thereby prevent the systemic flooding of the Nation's Heartland and cities including Bangkok. I think you'll find that no water management system can prevent localized flash flooding.

Are you kidding?

You obviously haven't heard of the plodprasop emergency brolly where entire communities link umbrellas to prevent the rain reaching terra firma, and pass it brolly by brolly to the ocean.

[ramrod711]

Isn't a flash flood an unexpected thing? Is it really a flash flood if somebody predicts it a week ahead of time?

[Thunder26]

This year major floods will not happen, but flash floods will do, as it happens every year. So far the rainfall pattern is completely different from the last year. It rains so much less as it used to be. But it rains a lot over mountains bordering Myanmar and suspicions arise... http://tmd.go.th/en/climate.php

[redroo]

On and off Heavy rain fall

with lightning for last month

east of ubon ratchathani

[Thaddeus]

If this does happen the relevant authorities may better delaying their flood testing.

With the water for the tests already reserved downstreams from Chai Nat dam (according to MoSc. Plodprasop), it might be a good idea to let the tests be done as planned to avoid too much water stuck behind the Chai Nat dam ?

Yep, brings a whole new meaning to damned if you do, damned if you don't. (Dam ..... get it)

Whether there is a forthcoming flood or drought, one thing is guaranteed, the display of incompetence will be spectacular.

[rubl]

If this does happen the relevant authorities may better delaying their flood testing.

With the water for the tests already reserved downstreams from Chai Nat dam (according to MoSc. Plodprasop), it might be a good idea to let the tests be done as planned to avoid too much water stuck behind the Chai Nat dam ?

Yep, brings a whole new meaning to damned if you do, damned if you don't. (Dam ..... get it)

Whether there is a forthcoming flood or drought, one thing is guaranteed, the display of incompetence will be spectacular.

I do hope so, with my taxes I already paid for it

[joedee]

If she won't then your obviously in the wrong place

..

Weather, it used to be very important to me, Whether she will or whether she won't.

[nikkoid66]

Where you got this map? All maps (wundergound etc... ) are all cut and not working on Thailand?

No rain for us the last couple of days and nothing showing on satellite in the North at present but it does look like something might be coming.

[HaleySabai]

But I am sure it rained somewhere in Canada too. It's pretty big

The province I grew up in is the equivalate size of Laos + Thailand together with a population of 4 million!

[asiawatcher]

The 'test' the Govt fears...

[IMA_FARANG]

This warning is based upon the remains of some tropical storms that affected parts of China and North Korea last week and are now passing through Laos and may affect areas of northern Thailand over the weekend.

There may be thunderstirms and possibly some locally heavy rainstorms that may result in flash flooding locally in hilly areas of north-eastern and northern Thailand.

That's what the news article should have said....but as usual they made a hash of it.

Edited September 1, 2012 by IMA_FARANG

[saengsureeya]

Mmmm, dilemma.......wash my car today or not?

I guess I'll support Thai economy with another useless act.........I'll go for a car-wash.

[David006]

Thailand's flood prevention systems are designed to improve water management and thereby prevent the systemic flooding of the Nation's Heartland and cities including Bangkok. I think you'll find that no water management system can prevent localized flash flooding.

Are you kidding?

You obviously haven't heard of the plodprasop emergency brolly where entire communities link umbrellas to prevent the rain reaching terra firma, and pass it brolly by brolly to the ocean.

... he got the idea from Sparta

[hubahuba]

When was the last time you ever trusted a weather "forecast" After all it's only a prediction!

[Scott]

Crackdown on PMs who promised "no flooding this year", please!

This just never gets old does it?

I hope if there is flooding, or any other emergency that might affect people who check here for news/information, that TV can reserve a thread for relevant postings only. It's difficult to get useful information if, as so often happens, you have the wade through 9 pages of childish comments to find a few helpful messages posted by people reporting from various parts of Thailand.

Thanks for the post and you can be assured that we will do our best to keep posters informed with a minimum of off-topic posts should the need arise.

[Ricardo]

Thailand's flood prevention systems are designed to improve water management and thereby prevent the systemic flooding of the Nation's Heartland and cities including Bangkok. I think you'll find that no water management system can prevent localized flash flooding.

Are you kidding?

You obviously haven't heard of the plodprasop emergency brolly where entire communities link umbrellas to prevent the rain reaching terra firma, and pass it brolly by brolly to the ocean.

The tourist-umbrella factories of Bosang are currently gearing-up production, of their famous paper-umbrellas, in anticipation of a flood (or is that a flash-flood ?) of orders from further-South ! To be shipped on the new high-speed railway down to Bangkok.

Edited September 1, 2012 by Ricardo

[sirchai]

Isn't a flash flood an unexpected thing? Is it really a flash flood if somebody predicts it a week ahead of time?

Not if the monk who predicted it was high......

Ubon Ratchathani and Sisaket will be safe. Or maybe not.

Edited September 1, 2012 by sirchai

[Ron19]

Crackdown on PMs who promised "no flooding this year", please!

Maybe we should have a crackdown on posters who keep churning out this ridiculous reference. Now you have opened the floodgates. I have no time for Barbie, but when she made her now infamous comment, she was referring to major flooding if the preparations were completed as "planned". No one can legislate for flashfloods which are the result of intense precipitation rates exceeding infiltration rates.

If enough water gets into BKK to overtop her burberry bootees, then fair enough she will have made a major blunder,,,,, and THEN she will be fair game.

Agree with everything you say. I wish some of these posters would get a brain and find something sensible to say in their posts.

[sunshine51]

Isn't a flash flood an unexpected thing? Is it really a flash flood if somebody predicts it a week ahead of time?

Not if the monk who predicted it was high......

Ubon Ratchathani and Sisaket will be safe. Or maybe not.

Rub a dub dub the PM's in a tub....hmmm, kinda crowded tub at that

...anyway...We humans should take a lesson from the weather

....we curse it, we scold it, we berate it, we criticise it and we do a

lot more things "negative" to it...But the weather continues to do as

it pleases, regardless of how we react to it. The weatther don't

really care what or how we feel about it. It's Welly & hip wader

season so have yer kit at the ready.

Edited September 1, 2012 by sunshine51

[Moruya]

I'm at a loss as to how dredging a few canals has somehow evolved into an entire flood management system.

Maybe Isaanbard Kingdom Plodprasop, minister for Scientology and hop scotch can explain.

[jaideecm]

I am looking at the forecast and maps for the next 10 days in Chiang Mai and the heaviest rain is 3 MM in 1 day. hardly enough fo0r a flood considering it hasn't rained in the last 3 days.

See: Chiang Mai 10 day weather forecast, updated four times a day and shows the weather summary plus detailed sun, rain, snow (ha ha), wind and temperature. The weather forecast extends out to 10 days showing information for morning, afternoon and overnight.

http://www.weather-forecast.com/locations/Chiang-Mai/forecasts/latest

Cheers,

Randy

[jaideecm]

I am looking at the forecast and maps for the next 10 days in Chiang Mai and the heaviest rain is 3 MM in 1 day. hardly enough fo0r a flood considering it hasn't rained in the last 3 days.

See: Chiang Mai 10 day weather forecast, updated four times a day and shows the weather summary plus detailed sun, rain, snow (ha ha), wind and temperature. The weather forecast extends out to 10 days showing information for morning, afternoon and overnight.

http://www.weather-f...orecasts/latest

Cheers,

Randy

I guess I should also add this. Place Name km 1–3 Day Summary 4–6 Day Summary Lampang 81 km Heavy rain (total 80mm), heaviest during Sat night Moderate rain (total 17mm), heaviest on Tue afternoon Phitsanulok 260 km Heavy rain (total 22mm), heaviest during Mon night Heavy rain (total 52mm), heaviest during Wed night Toungoo 265 km Heavy rain (total 38mm), heaviest during Sun night Heavy rain (total 50mm), heaviest during Tue afternoon Thaton 270 km Heavy rain (total 116mm), heaviest during Sat night Heavy rain (total 185mm), heaviest during Wed night Mawlamyine 291 km Heavy rain (total 49mm), heaviest during Sat morning Heavy rain (total 141mm), heaviest during Wed night

[Ron19]

Crackdown on PMs who promised "no flooding this year", please!

Maybe we should have a crackdown on posters who keep churning out this ridiculous reference. Now you have opened the floodgates. I have no time for Barbie, but when she made her now infamous comment, she was referring to major flooding if the preparations were completed as "planned". No one can legislate for flashfloods which are the result of intense precipitation rates exceeding infiltration rates.

If enough water gets into BKK to overtop her burberry bootees, then fair enough she will have made a major blunder,,,,, and THEN she will be fair game.

hehehe sorry just makeing states such as these she gets no slack, there is flooding somewhere

Yeh and as Jimmy Buffet said " It's 5 o'clock somewhere. " Edited September 1, 2012 by Ron19

[retell]

We had a real belly washer today, and there's another angry cloud rumbling to the south right now.

But it had been quite a while since the last one.

Guess you are reporting on Canada, since your name is the only clue as to where one might get their belly washed...

my guess mukdahan "muk" indeed very grey here 30 km away from the "big haha" city

but waiting and counting on rain tonight

[retell]

We had a real belly washer today, and there's another angry cloud rumbling to the south right now.

But it had been quite a while since the last one.

Guess you are reporting on Canada, since your name is the only clue as to where one might get their belly washed...

my guess mukdahan "muk" indeed very grey here 30 km away from the "big haha" city

but waiting and counting on rain tonight

20:33 nothin yet

[fullcave]

20:53 all clear...

[retell]

20:53 all clear...

where that may be ?

[otherstuff1957]

Relax guys... the storm's supposed to hit between the 2nd & 5th, that's Sunday through Wednesday, so I won't be peering out my window just yet!

Let's see if this link works - it's a weather map of SouthEast Asia today: As you can see, there is a long low front stretching from the Philippines, across N. Thailand and right into India. I suspect that hot, wet air from that high in the Indian Ocean will start hitting that low and dumping lots of rain there within the next few days.

Edited September 1, 2012 by otherstuff1957

[retell]

jeeee thats big

but thanks

[Pollyjoy]

Million $ Q.........