Wet Weather Ahead.

[Tropicalevo]

Good old Windguru - back on track.

Forecast 2 mm of rain between 4 am and 7 am and we are now having a light shower at 6.40 am

More rain please

[ThailandBert]

We had a good downpour yesterday afternoon on the West coast and this morning it is raining slightly. The sky around looks full of it. I have a happy garden this morning

[samuijimmy]

Only a ten or maybe fifteen minute light rain, here in my area of Maenam the morning.... not sure if enough to make the garden happy! There's sure a chill in the air... brrrr! Hard to say which way it will turn ....

No rain Saturday or Sunday... but very pleasant down on the beach!

[Tropicalevo]

Only a ten or maybe fifteen minute light rain, here in my area of Maenam the morning.... not sure if enough to make the garden happy! There's sure a chill in the air... brrrr! Hard to say which way it will turn ....

No rain Saturday or Sunday... but very pleasant down on the beach!

Exactly the same for us in Plai Laem Jimmy.

Looks like the lucky buugers on the west coast are keeping the rain to themselves.

[Rooo]

Is it better now? I have adjusted the flow.

[Tropicalevo]

Is it better now? I have adjusted the flow.

Thanks for trying Rooo.

Must be a blockage somewhere in the system. We had 'spitting' rain for a few minutes and now it has stopped again.

[Rooo]

Is it better now? I have adjusted the flow.

Thanks for trying Rooo.

Must be a blockage somewhere in the system. We had 'spitting' rain for a few minutes and now it has stopped again.

We had a good 15 minutes of rain, not drizzle.

[ThailandBert]

Cheers Rooo, here on the Western side of the island the heavens have well and truly opened and it is bucketing down and has been for around 1 hour now. Tanks filling nicely

[Tropicalevo]

Cheers Rooo, here on the Western side of the island the heavens have well and truly opened and it is bucketing down and has been for around 1 hour now. Tanks filling nicely

Bert - stop hogging the rain. Share it with the rest of us please.

[ThailandBert]

It has stopped here but not after a very nice and much needed downpour. maybe it has headed East, South or North ?

[Tropicalevo]

Anyway, i shall proceed with the same line of question; When is the rain season due please? An approximate date or week?

Not interested in cocks, balls <deleted> or BigC's sandwiches thanks.

OK Carmine - last night the wind shifted and I can now hear the surf. This is usually a sign of the winter monsoon. I predict that things will start to get really wet in the next week or two.

(and I mean more than the 15 minute showers that we have had 3 times this week)

This is a local forecast for the Plai Laem area. Mind you, I am taking 'the wife' over to KPG for a few days tomorrow. I predict BIG rain over at Koh Ma next week!

[PoorSucker]

Tuesday-Wednesday looks wet.

http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=30397

[Rooo]

Very strong wind on Wednesday.

http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=30397

[PoorSucker]

Right now.

99.9 mm rain/3h at Tuesday 22h.

http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=30397

[samui543]

Windguru now predicting 99mm of the wet stuff on tuesday? surely not?

[yorkie100]

Right now.

99.9 mm rain/3h at Tuesday 22h.

http://www.windguru....ex.php?sc=30397

If the forecast is accurate at least most of the rain will happen overnight.

[BigC]

Anyway, i shall proceed with the same line of question; When is the rain season due please? An approximate date or week?

Not interested in cocks, balls <deleted> or BigC's sandwiches thanks.

OK Carmine - last night the wind shifted and I can now hear the surf. This is usually a sign of the winter monsoon. I predict that things will start to get really wet in the next week or two.

(and I mean more than the 15 minute showers that we have had 3 times this week)

This is a local forecast for the Plai Laem area. Mind you, I am taking 'the wife' over to KPG for a few days tomorrow. I predict BIG rain over at Koh Ma next week!

My club sandwichs in S and P r the bull locks

[carmine]

Anyway, i shall proceed with the same line of question; When is the rain season due please? An approximate date or week?

Not interested in cocks, balls <deleted> or BigC's sandwiches thanks.

OK Carmine - last night the wind shifted and I can now hear the surf. This is usually a sign of the winter monsoon. I predict that things will start to get really wet in the next week or two.

(and I mean more than the 15 minute showers that we have had 3 times this week)

This is a local forecast for the Plai Laem area. Mind you, I am taking 'the wife' over to KPG for a few days tomorrow. I predict BIG rain over at Koh Ma next week!

My club sandwichs in S and P r the bull locks

They are very nice arn't they. I like the chesse and ham ones in particular. Heres a tip for you.....little french deli next to Siam Commercial bank in maenam. If theres a better sandwich on this island i'd like to know about it.

Anyway, do i take it the rain arrives on tuesday?

[BigC]

Tides are high so if heavy rain man cones u could expect floods

[BigC]

Anyway, i shall proceed with the same line of question; When is the rain season due please? An approximate date or week?

Not interested in cocks, balls <deleted> or BigC's sandwiches thanks.

OK Carmine - last night the wind shifted and I can now hear the surf. This is usually a sign of the winter monsoon. I predict that things will start to get really wet in the next week or two.

(and I mean more than the 15 minute showers that we have had 3 times this week)

This is a local forecast for the Plai Laem area. Mind you, I am taking 'the wife' over to KPG for a few days tomorrow. I predict BIG rain over at Koh Ma next week!

My club sandwichs in S and P r the bull locks

They are very nice arn't they. I like the chesse and ham ones in particular. Heres a tip for you.....little french deli next to Siam Commercial bank in maenam. If theres a better sandwich on this island i'd like to know about it.

Anyway, do i take it the rain arrives on tuesday?

I have been told Wednesday which could mean Tuesday night

I hope the pm gets stuck here so she can through money at the island so she can leave

[Rooo]

Wind prediction down, but rain still there. Hoooray.

http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=30397

[CaptainWindsock]

When forecasting for several days ahead I have noticed that "windguru" often massively overestimates the amount of rainfall or wind speed. Now only 10hrs away from the previously forecast 99.9 mm/3hr they have revised down to 7.9 mm/3hr

[ThailandBert]

I don't know where you are on the island but the heavens have just opened on the Western side of the island and I have probably had what they forecast up to now

Not that I am complaining as it is badly needed.

Accuweather is predicting heavy rain through till thursday afternoon.

I need to get me a fuel gauge for my water tank. How hard can it be to make ?

I can they sit here when it rains watching my tanks fill up with a smile

Time to do some research whilst it is pouring down !

[ydraw]

All you need is a stick or post long enough to touch the bottom of the tank.

[ThailandBert]

All you need is a stick or post long enough to touch the bottom of the tank.

Way to go sherlock !

I don't even need the stick. I just have to walk down lots of stairs, go under the house. Climb around a dark, slippery beastie infested cellar and simply shine my torch down into the tank to see how full it is. I can also climb several flights of stairs to go check the tank under the carport again without the aid of a stick just my trusty, rechargeable torch. What I am after is an electronic tank gauge that I can look at the same as you do in your car or bike and see just how much water my two tanks have without the need for any strenuous exercise.

From my basic understanding of these things it is simply a matter of a floatation device and a few capacitors / resistors a gauge and job done.

Just getting the right capacitors / resistors is the problem

But I do relish a challenge and if it proves beyond me then the great Baht will overcome

I just won't tell the wife I paid to have it done

[Tropicalevo]

One of my neighbours brought his over from Germany. Easy to buy there as he lives there. As you say Bert - not rocket science. It gives him an LED reading from 0% to 100% and even has an automatic cut-off at 70% from the well (to allow for rain fall.)

Try the internet?

[ydraw]

Here you go

http://www.motherearthnews.com/do-it-yourself/water-tank-gauge-zmaz76jaztak.aspx

[samuijimmy]

Well there sure was not much rain here in Maenam, a couple of times it sprinkled for a few minutes.... at least around me!

How's it doing over on KP around Mae Haad,- Koh Ma, there, Tropicalevo? ... I may head over in a few days....

[Rooo]

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