Cyclone ' Has No Effect' On Phuket

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Cyclone 'has no effect' on Phuket
Naraporn Tuarob


Cylone Mahasen’s 500-km-wide reach. Base map Google maps

PHUKET: -- As Cyclone Mahasen crossed the coast of Bangladesh and Myanmar this morning, local weathermen have said there is no direct effect on Phuket from the superstorm.

Higher waves around Phuket, they said, are because of a strengthening of the southwest monsoon, and not the cyclone. This is driving waves to heights of around two metres, and rain is expected by the weekend. Small boats are advised to stay onshore from Friday to Sunday (May 17-19).

Conditions will improve from Monday (May 20), with rain abating.

In Bangladesh, AFP reports that at least four people have died and almost one million people in coastal communities have been evacuated to cyclone shelters, as Cyclone Mahasen cut a swath 500 kilometres wide, from Dhaka in Bangladesh to Sittwe in Myanmar’s Rakhine province.

Although the cyclone landed packing winds of 100 kmh, it is rapidly weakening and damage is expected to be less than was feared.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/cyclone-%E2%80%98has-no-effect%E2%80%99-on-phuket-39429.php


-- Phuket News 2013-05-16

[SeaVisionBurma]

Given it was probably about 1600 odd kilometres between the cyclone & Phuket, I am not really surprised by this article....

[KhunMichael]

What "news"..... Next time these stupid, so called journalists will bother us with headlines like "Dense fog in London.... but no effect to the weather on Phuket" . Morons..... ARRRRRRRRG....

[cloghead]

"Higher waves around Phuket, they said, are because of a strengthening of the southwest monsoon, and not the cyclone". WRONG!!!

'They' should have been at Surin beach last Tuesday--best waves I've ever seen on Phuket. Overhead and juicy. I flew from Trat to Phuket just to catch the swell.

'Local weathermen' don't surf...