Weather in Hua Hin & Thailand

[buksida]

I reckon we're in for some biblical flooding this year, in all the years I've lived in Thailand, I can never recall it pissing down in February and March.

[Jack_Batty]

I reckon we're in for some biblical flooding this year, in all the years I've lived in Thailand, I can never recall it pissing down in February and March.

I guess I need to pay better attention to the weather report. The start of hot season was announced and I just braced myself for hot, dry weather for the next three months. I was quite surprised to be awoken to a torrential downpour just after midnight this morning. Now it is exactly twelve hours later and it is overcast, cool, and windy at my place.

[Nereus]

What could be called the "normal" summer, or dry season weather pattern in Thailand, is very much influenced by the weather pattern in China. The northern winter conditions in China are influenced by huge areas of high pressure, that tend to remain stationary over the whole land mass. The winds around a northern hemisphere of high pressure rotate in a clockwise direction, which for Thailand, results in cold north easterly winds flowing into the country from northern Chinese snowfields.
These winds pass mostly over land, and therefore remain dry.

What has been seen this year is that; although there is a still a large high pressure area, for unexplained reasons, there have been several successive areas of high pressure that have developed that have been "pushed" out to the east towards Japan, and further south into the South China Sea.

The influence of these high pressure systems moving south has resulted in the prevailing winds veering further and further to the west, sometimes even as far as becoming southwest. Those winds pass over the ocean picking up moisture which results in unseasonal rain.

Some of this MAY be caused by “La Niña Conditions", although it is a very weak condition and not expected to last much longer.

The predictions for the South West Monsoon are; that it will be pretty much a "normal" start and intensity.

What happens with the North East Monsoon may be influenced for all of us by Putin!

https://asmc.asean.org/asmc-el-nino/

[Nereus]

The following is from todays Thailand Met Dept:

The heat low covers upper Thailand with day hot. Meanwhile, the weakening southerly and the southeasterly winds prevails across the Gulf of Thailand with isolated thundershowers in the west part of the North and the Central regions, including the East. The easterly winds across the South is weakening with less rain....more

When they post gibberish like that it has to be asked: just WTF are they smoking? It is not "lost in translation", but indicates that they have no idea what they are talking about.

Years ago there was an old bloke in charge at the Met Dept, and although he was a Thai, I think his name was something or other Smith. I guess that he has retired or passed on, but he would never post anything like the above!
99% of the synoptic information is provided by other than Thai sources, it is their interpretation of that infomation they get wrong and post.

[bigston]

The "forecasts " here are a constant source of amusement for me
they remind me of a radio station back home that played mainly rubbish music all day, briefly pausing for yesterdays news and a weather update
one day from early morning they kept repeating the days forecast, well into the night
hot and sunny today with a top of 33...
at 11 am it started raining, it was 18 degrees at lunchtime and we had 30 odd mm of rain for memory.
should have perhaps opened a window..

[HHTel]

I could be a Thai forecaster with no experience whatsoever.

"The weather today will be similar to what it was yesterday."

How many times would I be wrong?

[Jack_Batty]

Getting some wind gusts up here in Hin Lek Fai that sound like they’re gonna pick my house up and send it to Kansas!

[Dannie Boy]

Getting some wind gusts up here in Hin Lek Fai that sound like they’re gonna pick my house up and send it to Kansas!

We’re a long way from there near the Energy project close to Cha Am and similar gusts of wind, much stronger than normal so the trees are shedding leaves by the thousand!!


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[PeteC]

There's rain around. It's been storming off and on in the east since noon.

[Dannie Boy]

Forecast for next week on this side.


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[thecolonel]

Getting some wind gusts up here in Hin Lek Fai that sound like they’re gonna pick my house up and send it to Kansas!

Don't forget Toto

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[Dannie Boy]

Forecast for next week on this side.


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Not particularly heavy, but it’s been raining for about 5 minutes

[PeteC]

Forecast for next week on this side.

Not particularly heavy, but it’s been raining for about 5 minutes

Yeah, you look at the radar, it's raining right along the Petchaburi/PKK line, about directly over Cha-Am.

[PeteC]

I forgot what you experienced over there 2 years ago, but in the east it rained during the hot season just about twice a week, hard, during the time mid-March to through mid-May. The least amount of watering I've done during the hot season here in 16 years up to that point. I'm hoping this is another year like that.

[Dannie Boy]

I forgot what you experienced over there 2 years ago, but in the east it rained during the hot season just about twice a week, hard, during the time mid-March to through mid-May. The least amount of watering I've done during the hot season here in 16 years up to that point. I'm hoping this is another year like that.

I’d agree with that


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