Rainy season will start at the end of May

 

 

Thailand will officially enter rainy season at the end of this month and the rain situation this year will be normal without an El Nino phenomenon with sufficient water for agriculture, according to the prediction of the Meteorological Department.

 

Department head Mr Wanchai Sak-udomchai said on Monday that rainfall this year would not be too much to cause widespread flooding or too little that would cause widespread drought.

 

However, during the start of the rainy season expected at the end of this month, the amount of rainfall might be slightly more than normal and, eventually, it would decrease in September and October.

 

Full Story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/rainy-season-will-start-end-may/

 

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Its been wet for the past month in Surin. The weather "expert"hasn't really gone out on a limb with his predictions has he?

Well he has gone as far as covering all bases !! Basically he hasn't a clue what it's actually going to do I would imagine!

Not too wet, not too dry.

Not too hot, not too cold.

Just right.

 

This forecast was brought to you by Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Started in Bangkok already. Hate it. Just before it rains the heat is far too intense. 

My weather rock has been right on 100%

 

Somchai "knows" what the weather will be this year, based on normal weather patterns for nearly every year ;-) 

Edited May 8, 20179 yr by Captain_Bob

It has been raining off-and-on, especially late-afternoon and early-evening, every few days for the past two weeks here in Chiang Mai.

 

Obviously we now know that we're all wrong after all, and this wasn't the start of the monsoon season, which most local expats thought was due early-May.

 

And the PM need not worry about the monsoon having started early, as reported on another thread this morning, there's still a few weeks to wait and fix the broken weirs  ...

 

  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/982208-pm-prayut-concerned-with-early-arrival-of-rainy-season/

 

I wonder whether the genius from the Met Office might also, clarify, whether we're likely to see daylight between morning & evening, and the likelihood of it being darker at night-time ?

 

10 hours ago, pugwash1 said:

Its been wet for the past month in Surin. The weather "expert"hasn't really gone out on a limb with his predictions has he?

Its rained every week since last November. There has been NO dry season this year. So called weather experts are a joke.

2 minutes ago, khwaibah said:

Its rained every week since last November. There has been NO dry season this year. So called weather experts are a joke.

Not in Chiang Mai it hasn't.

It's important to watch the wind maps, the South West Monsoon brings the rains in May so if the wind is not from the SW, there's unlikely to be any sustained rainfall.

I am yet to see these people accurately forecast anything.

I believe that their record is fairly good, on which direction the Sun will rise in, every morning ?

Being a weather forecaster is the perfect job. You can get it wrong all the time and you never get fired.

Predictions 99.9% correct...

 

He put his finger in his mouth before putting it up... Serious...

It's "officially" the rainy season on 1st May.

Actual rainy season can start a month either side of this.

Pity the weather doesn't read the newspapers....

What wizardry from this department. Protecting the start of rainy season in May? And if this was not enough of a shock prediction. They also see the rainy season tapering off in October.

Next they will be predicting that the laws of gravity will be in effect  throughout the year.

18 hours ago, pugwash1 said:

Its been wet for the past month in Surin. The weather "expert"hasn't really gone out on a limb with his predictions has he?

It is only an "official" start date, regardless of circumstances. 

Shaman too!!!

I wish I had the ability to forecast the future. But then again. I'm just a foreigner.

Yawn...

Good - O.

 

He can put the seaweed away for another year ?

20 hours ago, pugwash1 said:

The weather "expert"hasn't really gone out on a limb with his predictions has he?

 

He might as well have said  "The amount of light will increase tomorrow after sunrise and, eventually, it will decrease after sunset." 

 

hysterical...like a vintage johnny carson and the tonight show prediction....'''I predict the sun will rise tomorrow'''

7 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Being a weather forecaster is the perfect job. You can get it wrong all the time and you never get fired.

Even better than being a barrister when one of is wrong 50% of the time but still charge as if they win 100% of the time

Can you please tell me what day!?  I have plans you know

not that long ago they were predicting a drought lasting most of the year, look like they got a new magic ball