The southern provinces of Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon, Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phatthalung, Songkhla, Ranong, Phangnga, Phuket, Krabi, Trang and Satun should expect heavy to very heavy rain and possible flooding in the next two days.
The weather is under the influence of an active low pressure area. Residents and tourists in the mentioned provinces are advised to continue to follow the weather forecasts and not to go to sea because of high waves.
Travelers should note that a number of bus and train routes from Bangkok to the south are blocked. Inquire about the status before you leave.
Nakhon Si Thammarat Airport
Nakhon Si Thammarat airport is closed today and tomorrow because the runway and central entrance are flooded. The airport closed on Friday. Thai Lion Air will operate four additional flights between Don Mueang and Surat Thani until Tuesday.
Residents of Nakhon Si Thammarat have been warned that crocodiles may have escaped from the Tung Ta Lad zoo, which has been flooded. At least ten animals. In the past two days, residents have shot and killed two crocodiles.
Two bridges have collapsed in the Nop Phi Tham district, leaving ten thousand residents unable to move.
Source: Bangkok Post
When the floods threatened Bangkok in 2011, the Thai-language, English-language newspapers and all blogs were full of reports, mainly about who was to blame for the floods. That was Yingluck, most of them thought.
Now the floods in the South are almost as severe, and the coverage is a lot less. Bangkok in Thailand and Thailand is Bangkok, right?
In 2011, Yingluck was not blamed for the floods. Yingluck and also the governor of Bangkok (Sukhumbandt) were hit hard about the way they handled the crisis. The floods in the south, as bad as they are, cannot be compared in scale to 2011, when millions of people (certainly not only in Bangkok but also in more northern provinces) suffered from the flooding.
http://www.thaiwater.net/web/index.php/ourworks2554/379-2011flood-summary.html
As stated in the message, the rain is caused by an active low pressure area.
The annoying thing is that it has been with the core near the city of Ranong for about five days and does not budge from its place.
Here in Ban Krut (Prachuab Khirikhan) it has been raining continuously since January 3rd.
This afternoon I spoke to a young family from Sweden, who are on holiday here with 3 small children.
They came here with the expectation that the weather would be beautiful, as in other years, but their holiday has now largely been rained out.
If they had known 5 days ago that the rain would last so long, they would have gone to another place, but then the expectation was that the rain, as usual at this time, would soon be over.
Guilt, guilt…we just came from Ko Tao, are now in Khao Sok. When you see the amounts of water… we so easily blame a government…
huub
We are back from Samui on Saturday, we have been going there since 1999, I have never seen this bad and it will not get any better, it is always being built higher, trees have to be saved, there is no policy on the island. see the future samui with empty eyes sitting at Ginette now in Bangkok
Now also from Ban Krut it is not possible to travel by bus or train to the south or to Bangkok after last night's flooding.