Weather in Hua Hin & Thailand
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^ I must have been out of town when that happened or was it at night and I just didn't realize? I was in Bangkok for a few days twice during that month. It was actually a prior December that I was thinking about, last year or the year before.
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It rained on Christmas Day.
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^ These must be very localized showers. It didn't rain at my house on Christmas morning nor where I had Christmas dinner at another friend's house in Hua Hin on Christmas afternoon and evening.
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great links - thank you
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How local do I need to be? Your back garden?hhfarang wrote:^ These must be very localized showers. It didn't rain at my house on Christmas morning nor where I had Christmas dinner at another friend's house in Hua Hin on Christmas afternoon and evening.
Not sure about Xmas day but it hammered it down one night not long after I arrived, so around the 16th-19th.
It woke me at about 4 in the morning and I was a bit jet lagged so I went and watched it and had a ciggy.
Also once or twice after that the Garden was soaked in the morning.
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Must have slept through that one or was in Bangkok. I haven't seen or known of and rainfall since early November here. It did seem unusually cool for a long period from mid October through January, especially at night so maybe overnight showers were partly responsible for the lower temps.
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What a miserable day it is in Bangkok. Completely overcast with gloomy black clouds, depressing really. My Granddaughter just came home from School, (3-00pm) and said "why is it so dark"?
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All the blackness turned into yet another downpour here in Rayong yesterday afternoon. I think up towards Pattaya got it worse from the sound and direction of all the thunder and lightening. This is shaping up to be a weird year. I won't complain though if the coming heat is tempered with a thundershower each day.Nereus wrote:What a miserable day it is in Bangkok. Completely overcast with gloomy black clouds, depressing really. My Granddaughter just came home from School, (3-00pm) and said "why is it so dark"?
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It was overcast for the first half of yesterday and I was hoping it would rain as the Thai news is warning of water shortages in this area and possible rationing according to my wife, but in the afternoon the sun came out and it was hotter than ever.
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Govt lethargy continues over the drought problem
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin ... ht-problem
All signs point to the grim prospect that the dry season water shortage this year will be more severe than last year, but little action has been seen from the government about how it plans to address the problem and ease the hardship of the affected people, especially our rural folks.
As usual, it has been our beloved King who is the first to take the initiative and is the most enthusiastic about dealing with the drought which, in recent years, has become an annual problem.
Disathorn Watcharothai, deputy secretary-general of the Royal Household, said that His Majesty the King had expressed concern about the problem and had instructed the Office of the Royal Household to work closely with and help the Ministry of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives in the artificial rain-making operations.
The King also instructed the Royal Rain Office to keep monitoring weather conditions, to judge when the humidity is right so that rain-making operation can be launched immediately to replenish the water falling levels in many dams, particularly the five major dams - Bhumibol, Sirikit, Ubonrat, Pasak Cholasit and Kwae Noi.
As of last week, the total amount of water stored by the country’s dams stood at 44,511 million cubic metres, just 64 per cent of the total capacity and 2,000 million cubic metres less than last year.
Although there were scattered rain showers in several parts of the country in the past few days, the first showers of the rainy season are not expected for another 3 or 4 months, provided, of course, that the climate is not erratic.
For now, however, several rivers and their tributaries which are the main source of water for home consumption and irrigation are drying up, exposing their sandy river beds.
According to the Underground Water Resources Department, 596 districts and 27,524 villages in 60 provinces are already at risk of facing a drought this year. Of these, 13 provinces, covering 6,730 villages, have been declared drought-stricken areas. Just imagine, it is only early March and there are still 3 to 4 months to go before the normal rainy season arrives, if it is on time.
With the drought problem predicted to be more serious than last year staring us in the face, one may wonder what the government has done or is planning to do to cope with the situation and the myriad problems which will follow.
Is there any national water management policy to deal with alternating drought and flood problems?
As always, there is no long-term solution or a long-term plan top deal with long-term scourges. The problems are dealt with as they occur. Even though the water shortage is predicted to be worse this year, not a single minister has expressed concern about it. Nor have we seen any major preparations so far.
As always, it is just business as usual – no need to be worried, no need to be too excited, because the people are used to it.
Drought or not, Bangkokians are unlikely to be affected as their tap water will continue to flow uninterrupted. But our rural people will inevitably bear the brunt. Thousands of them will, again as usual, travel to Bangkok in search of manual work. At least, they will not have to worry about having water to drink or wash with.
So it falls back on our beloved King. Shouldn’t someone in the government at least feel ashamed and ask why it has to always be the King who has to take the initiative to address the drought problem?
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin ... ht-problem
All signs point to the grim prospect that the dry season water shortage this year will be more severe than last year, but little action has been seen from the government about how it plans to address the problem and ease the hardship of the affected people, especially our rural folks.
As usual, it has been our beloved King who is the first to take the initiative and is the most enthusiastic about dealing with the drought which, in recent years, has become an annual problem.
Disathorn Watcharothai, deputy secretary-general of the Royal Household, said that His Majesty the King had expressed concern about the problem and had instructed the Office of the Royal Household to work closely with and help the Ministry of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives in the artificial rain-making operations.
The King also instructed the Royal Rain Office to keep monitoring weather conditions, to judge when the humidity is right so that rain-making operation can be launched immediately to replenish the water falling levels in many dams, particularly the five major dams - Bhumibol, Sirikit, Ubonrat, Pasak Cholasit and Kwae Noi.
As of last week, the total amount of water stored by the country’s dams stood at 44,511 million cubic metres, just 64 per cent of the total capacity and 2,000 million cubic metres less than last year.
Although there were scattered rain showers in several parts of the country in the past few days, the first showers of the rainy season are not expected for another 3 or 4 months, provided, of course, that the climate is not erratic.
For now, however, several rivers and their tributaries which are the main source of water for home consumption and irrigation are drying up, exposing their sandy river beds.
According to the Underground Water Resources Department, 596 districts and 27,524 villages in 60 provinces are already at risk of facing a drought this year. Of these, 13 provinces, covering 6,730 villages, have been declared drought-stricken areas. Just imagine, it is only early March and there are still 3 to 4 months to go before the normal rainy season arrives, if it is on time.
With the drought problem predicted to be more serious than last year staring us in the face, one may wonder what the government has done or is planning to do to cope with the situation and the myriad problems which will follow.
Is there any national water management policy to deal with alternating drought and flood problems?
As always, there is no long-term solution or a long-term plan top deal with long-term scourges. The problems are dealt with as they occur. Even though the water shortage is predicted to be worse this year, not a single minister has expressed concern about it. Nor have we seen any major preparations so far.
As always, it is just business as usual – no need to be worried, no need to be too excited, because the people are used to it.
Drought or not, Bangkokians are unlikely to be affected as their tap water will continue to flow uninterrupted. But our rural people will inevitably bear the brunt. Thousands of them will, again as usual, travel to Bangkok in search of manual work. At least, they will not have to worry about having water to drink or wash with.
So it falls back on our beloved King. Shouldn’t someone in the government at least feel ashamed and ask why it has to always be the King who has to take the initiative to address the drought problem?
May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil know`s you`re dead!
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Yes indeed, the government should be ashamed. Four months ago most of the central, north and northeast were underwater. Apparently, 1) dams are not large enough to store the rain we get. 2) It just flows down the rivers to the sea and no one is bright enough to dig local catchment basins to take advantage of this gift once the dry season arrives. I hope they're digging now for the coming rainy season.Nereus wrote:.....As of last week, the total amount of water stored by the country’s dams stood at 44,511 million cubic metres, just 64 per cent of the total capacity and 2,000 million cubic metres less than last year.......
This government may just as well hand the Red Shirts the next election on a silver platter.
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They'll just contrive some way to take it off them again...
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Just had the Mother of all storms pass through in Bangkok. Thunder, lighting, high winds and heavy rain. Power out for about an hour in my area. Weird, just like the rainy season. 
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Yes, Rayong as well but not that heavy. We've been getting them everyday though and now at 0400 hours it's raining again. Some of this has to make it over to HH eventually. PeteNereus wrote:Just had the Mother of all storms pass through in Bangkok. Thunder, lighting, high winds and heavy rain. Power out for about an hour in my area. Weird, just like the rainy season.
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Maybe this one will make it to HH, Bangkok it seems for sure. Just bombed me over here. Images only good if you look within the next hors or so as live radar. Pete
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