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Home » News from Thailand » Thai Meteorological Department: Heat wave ends in May
Thai Meteorological Department: Heat wave ends in May
Posted in News from Thailand, Weather and climate
Tags: Heat, Rain, Rainy season, Storm
Those who have had enough of the heat in Thailand (who isn't?), have to persevere for a while. The heat wave will be over by mid-May, says the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD).
The predictions will continue for a while because TMD expects the rainy season to start in May and that there will be 10 percent more rain this year than the annual average of the past 30 years. The rainy season lasts until mid-October.
This year there will be more storms over Thailand. The heaviest rainfall is expected from the middle of July with most rains in August and September.
The Royal Irrigation Department has learned from last year. To prevent water scarcity, the outflow of water from the four major reservoirs between August and October is limited to 10 million cubic meters of water per day. Normally that is 18 million cubic meters of water per day.
It has already stormed quite a bit in the north of Thailand. This caused damage in Nakhon Ratchasima. Damage is also reported from the provinces of Phayao and Surin.
We already got a taste of the rainy season today in Pattaya and I hear elsewhere as well. We got a big downpour and of course several streets were flooded again.
It is refreshing, it is now Saturday evening 7 o'clock and the temperature is "only" 26 degrees.
I would like to go to Pattaya in August or September. Normally it is not too bad with the rain in Pattaya in August/September, I have experience with that. But what awaits me and the others in Pattaya with the normal rain season. Is it wise to go?
Here near Lamduan (near Surin) it has been windy the past few days. I wouldn't call it a storm, but the wild stories were no less. For example, someone reported to me that 100 houses had been blown over by the wind in a village not very far from here. That seemed like a strong story to me, but these kinds of wild stories are more common.
Nevertheless, it is still very hot here during the day. And especially at night! The temperature stays around 30 and during the day around 40.
At the same time I see on Facebook that “friends” in Pattaya are posting pictures of a flooded “Sukhumvit” (I presume). Here in the Surin area we could use some water. Many households no longer have water, because the water source has dried up and they now have to dig deeper wells (and need a more powerful pump)