With tropical depression Dianmu now properly into the Bay of Bengal and continuing to weaken, one other low depression sits over Thailand’s lower north, continuing to drop rain in most components of the nation. The area can be coming to the tip of the annual hurricane season which whips up west-moving storms from the Pacific and into the South China Sea (more below).
Published this morning on Thailand’s TMD…
“The monsoon trough lies throughout the decrease North, the central and the lower Northeast affiliate with the low-pressure cell covers the Central. Meanwhile, the southwest monsoon prevails over the Andaman Sea, the South and the Gulf of Thailand.”
Put in plain English, anticipate some more rain in most components of Thailand because the country enters its traditional wettest month of the year, October.
Looking ahead…
“ Pattern stay over the country with isolated heavy rain stays over in the lower Central, the East and the South… The southwest monsoon prevails over the Andaman Sea, Thailand and the Gulf of Thailand throughout the period.”
The annual celebration of Songkran, the Thai New Year on April 13, is often timed to match both the tip of Thailand’s sizzling season and the start of the annual moist season. But in most provinces the beginning of the monsoon is usually a month or so later.
If you’d like to be taught more about Thailand’s reasonably predictable monsoon cycle, learn HERE.
The 2021 Pacific hurricane season runs throughout the year, with no particular seasonal boundaries, but many of the regional tropical cyclones (called typhoons on this part of the world) are usually whipped up between May and October each year. The season’s first official storm, ‘Surigae’, reached hurricane status on April 16 this yr. It was the strongest tropical cyclone so far this 12 months..