Storm Warning – Met Office Forecasts Heavy Rain

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Storm Warning – Met Office Forecasts Heavy Rain
Story by Albert Jack – Source: Met Office Warnings


The Storm is Coming

BANGKOK: -- The Meteorological Department has warned of heavy rain nationwide from Thursday to Sunday thanks to a strong monsoon in the South and a storm approaching southern China.

The forecast is for rain over 60% of the country, beginning in the next two days. Between Thursday and Sunday it will rain more in the North, the Northeast, the Central Plain including the greater Bangkok, the East Coast and the South.

On Tuesday and Wednesday the southwestern monsoon would blanket the Andaman Sea, the South and the Gulf of Thailand, and a powerful low pressure area would cover upper Vietnam.

From Thursday to Sunday, the southwestern monsoon would become stronger and a storm would reach southern China, bringing heavy rainfall to Thailand.

Full story: http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/228511/storm-warning-met-office-forecasts-heavy-rain/


-- Pattaya One 2016-07-26

[assayer]

2011 anyone??

[sjjmmi]

Time to get the boat out then

[craigt3365]

2011 anyone??

How about 2015? Really bad here in Pattaya.

[Rob8891]

2011 anyone??

Hardly. Reservoirs are very lose, so there is plenty of storage available.

[nauseus]

2011 anyone??

How about 2015? Really bad here in Pattaya.

bad drought yes

[joeyg]

God do we need it. Hope there's no flooding...

[craigt3365]

2011 anyone??

How about 2015? Really bad here in Pattaya.

bad drought yes

And bad floods.

[Jeremy50]

Great, I'll have the park all to myself to run in.

[Guest]

Watch it here live:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/overlay=total_precipitable_water/orthographic=-261.44,14.94,497

[khwaibah]

2011 anyone??

How about 2015? Really bad here in Pattaya.

bad drought yes

And bad floods.

2005 put most of the above to shame.

[onionluke]

Lucky here in Macau, just rain showers , normally from the outer bands of the weather system , and a bit of wind gusts. Heading to the coast past Hainan.

[kotsak]

On it's way

http://weather.tmd.go.th/bma_nkm.php

[billd766]

2011 anyone??

Localised flooding perhaps especially in BKK but most of the dam levels are still very low so they will be able to save most of it.

[Torrens54]

Bring it on !

[DrTuner]

2011 anyone??

Localised flooding perhaps especially in BKK but most of the dam levels are still very low so they will be able to save most of it.

Yeah and then when the real rainy season hits in Sep-Oct the dams are already full and there we go. This they should just let run straight off. Probability for La Nina is high.

[ClutchClark]

Hey Gents,

If you were a storm chaser, what part of the country would you travel to for the heaviest storm activity?

Thanks

[DDbkh]

I wonder if anyone has told the BMA about this?

[laocowboy2]

Watch it here live:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/overlay=total_precipitable_water/orthographic=-261.44,14.94,497

Thanks for that - now pinned.

[Alive]

The rain forecasts just don't seem to live up to what they say. It's more like a swiss cheese effect over the land where some areas get rain and others get nothing. I've been waiting for real rain for years. Flood this darn place. Downpours across the nation! Wind! Tornadoes! Frogs! Cats and dogs!

[ozyjon]

Watch it here live:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/overlay=total_precipitable_water/orthographic=-261.44,14.94,497

What a great map, stared at it for hours,, The Australia part

is really scary.

Edited July 27, 2016 by ozyjon

[DrTuner]

The rain forecasts just don't seem to live up to what they say. It's more like a swiss cheese effect over the land where some areas get rain and others get nothing. I've been waiting for real rain for years. Flood this darn place. Downpours across the nation! Wind! Tornadoes! Frogs! Cats and dogs!

Aye, a giant mudslide to wash the hair off the crotch of Siam at the end of the Chao Phraya basin would be funky.

Edited July 27, 2016 by DrTuner

[ozyjon]

[billd766]

2011 anyone??

Localised flooding perhaps especially in BKK but most of the dam levels are still very low so they will be able to save most of it.

Yeah and then when the real rainy season hits in Sep-Oct the dams are already full and there we go. This they should just let run straight off. Probability for La Nina is high.

Do you really think so?

Follow this link

http://www.thaiwater.net/web/index.php/en.html

and look at the water levels in the dams and think again. Most of them won't be full this year, and, if Thailand is lucky and the politicians don't interfere with water management as they did before, Thailand will be OK.

[Prbkk]

Barely a sprinkle: majestic blue sky morning followed by some light cloud cover.

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

I use this site when I go boating, it shows wind, waves and rain: https://www.windyty.com/?12.213,102.578,4

[geriatrickid]

Sunny enough in Hua Hin such that it did not interfere with Police end of month traffic collection activity outside Market Village.

[DrTuner]

Been the nicest day in months in BKK. I can see some dark clouds coming in from the west now, but hardly a storm.

[kickstart]

We live in central Lopburi , about 6 km from the Pasak Jolasid dam ,over the past 37 days we have had ,376 mm of rain ( or in English money, about 15 inches). so far the dam is only 30% full , and they still have 2 of the 5 doors open ,letting some water go, the local rain has not had a lot of effect on the dam level ,40 km away wife's daughter has lost a crop of rice , to much rain , and no were to pump the excess water to ,now having to plant seed in a nursery bed and transfer the plants to the rice paddies , and my grass paddocks are more like rice paddies .

The only time the Pasak dam will be full ,is when we hear Nam-Tooum- Petchaboon ,on the Thai news , flooding in Petchaboon province where the Pasak river come from , and is the main water supplier for the dam , and Petchaboon province is about 160 km from the dam .

I would say other dams in the country ,would be similar ,rivers feeding the dams coming a long way .

Posters are writing let it rain ,but it has to rain in the right places to have any effect ,and then our intrepid politicians ,managing the whole job .