Actual rainfall for Udon

Post by **noosard** » May 24, 2016, 10:52 am

Try these radar sites
Can see approaching storms

http://www2.tmd.go.th/radar/kknLoop.php

http://www2.tmd.go.th/radar/sknLoop.php

Post by **colt1911** » May 24, 2016, 11:50 am

Noosard,
Thanks. Real radar! not a satellite image

Post by **Shado** » June 5, 2016, 6:00 pm

1.2 inches (30.4 mm) of rain the past couple of hours in tambon Ban Jan. Watched it come in on the TMD radar.

Post by **Drunk Monkey** » June 5, 2016, 6:08 pm

Yes indeed Shado a big old deluge splodge of rain in Nadee / Ban Jan and we need it and lots more for sure .

Dont mind the rain but those loud cracks of thunder and lightning strikes are a bit unnerving .

Also , not only Udon .... I took a peak at the Lamtakhong Resevior last rip to Bkk and noticed folks have built houses / structures on the exposed lake bed

...never seen it so low .

DM

Post by **rick** » June 6, 2016, 9:04 pm

Yes yesterday had quite a deluge and a bit of wind. Unfortunately coming only 2 days after our last soaking, the ground was still very soft and the wind flattened my 50 sweetcorn plants. I am beginning to understand why the average Thai only grows rice after March! Between heat, wind and torrential rain, most garden vegetables loose the battle.

Post by **Khun Paul** » June 7, 2016, 6:11 am

I have a fountain in the garden which had over the last dry season become completely dry and I was intending to clean it out and restock with plants and fish. HOWEVER in the last couple of weeks it is now full which is approximately TEN inches of water/ 25 cms of or 250 mm of rain ion the last weeks. which is a LOT of water. equals in this bowl approx. 4-6 hundred litres of water .

Post by **noosard** » June 7, 2016, 8:32 am

Rainfall here has been
April 49mm storm on the 29th
May 219mm
June 34mm

Post by **parrot** » June 10, 2016, 10:10 pm

No rain in the forecast.....that I saw......but got a good downpour at kilo 18 tonight.

Post by **FrazeeDK** » June 11, 2016, 11:01 am

downpour east of ring road near the horse racing track around 2200 or so last night.... Thai Met and Yahoo weather both said low/no possibility of rain... fine by me though since now we don't have to water the plants!!

Post by **Shado** » June 11, 2016, 11:09 am

One tenth of an inch (2.5mm) overnight in Ban Jan.

Post by **kris** » July 8, 2016, 7:12 am

5 years of drought and despite a slight reprieve its still going to mush (Huay Luang Reservoir)

Post by **kris** » July 8, 2016, 7:21 am

July 2013 (Huay Luang reservoir)

Post by **kris** » July 8, 2016, 7:26 am

ongoing desperate attempts to dig the mush out of Huay Luang reservoir.. i suppose at the end of the day, the water table level is so low, even a half hearted wet season will not make a dent in it... i recall 10 years ago it would rain like crazy every night (in May) never mind bleedin July

Post by **parrot** » July 11, 2016, 2:20 pm

Nice sunny day.....my wife and I commenting on how nice it'd be for some rain to cool things off....but there was hardly a cloud in the sky and the forecast didn't seem to support any precipitation. Then at 2PM, out of nowhere....the skies opened. Perfect! kilo 18

Post by **parrot** » July 11, 2016, 2:32 pm

Ooops, and almost just as quick.....the sun is out again. Thank you air conditioner!

Post by **rjj04** » July 11, 2016, 2:56 pm

For mid-July the reservoirs throughout the country seem quite low...

http://www.kromchol.com/array/BDam.htm

Post by **pal52** » July 11, 2016, 4:08 pm

rjj04 wrote:For mid-July the reservoirs throughout the country seem quite low...

http://www.kromchol.com/array/BDam.htm

It all has to do with the lack of Infrastructure.

Approx. forty years ago an individual of Thailand personally drew up plans to direct the flood waters of Bangkok & other areas & to design a irrigation / water management system where 2 rice crops could be grown in lots of areas & conserve water.

At the time it was agreed by scientists / engineers etc it was a brilliant plan with great forward sight.
The last time Bangkok was flooded which caused all sorts of problems (approx 3-4 years ago the plans were published again.

It was still agreed that the plans were very good by all the experts but could be modified to suit modern engineering.
No government has yet made any major investment to look at & carry out the plans to solve water shortages & flooding.

It is called basic infrastructure which we lack regarding water.

Post by **pal52** » July 11, 2016, 4:12 pm

it appears my post above has been modified because I mentioned a certain man of Royal Patronage even though it only praises him & his foresight at the time was excellent

Post by **rjj04** » July 12, 2016, 6:22 am

I don't remember seeing a forecast like this for July, check out the number of sunny days. It's not looking good for the reservoir levels...

: Forecast for rest of July 2016 in Sakon Nakhon province

Post by **Khun Paul** » July 12, 2016, 6:57 am

I am fully convinced like in the UK that the weather has actually shifted a couple of months , now wether that is because of the El Nino / El Nina effect, is open to supposition.
I was informed that the world following the tsunami and earthquake of 2003/4 actually shifted on its axis about half a degree.
The possibility of subsequent earthquakes of a similar magnitude pushing it back is also open to argument. Here in Udon the management of water has increased and to be fair to the local Government they do , do a very good job, tue they were helped years ago by the construction of not only a storm drain principle but also of a major pumping station at Nong Prajak, pumping oput the excess to the resovoirs and having it back in times of less rainfall.

It will take some years for the worlds weather system to recover form the 2003/4 Tsunami after effects, we just have to live on this earth fopr a really short span of time , Greenland after all not that long ago ( by earths time frame ) was covered in trees hence the name.

The rainfall of late ( over the last few days has been over 150 millilitres ) , not too shabby and the prospects of rain somewhere in the province for the foreseeable future almost every day will not do any harm either.