Rain, where art thou?

[Brian Davis]

.. July and August are usually are two highest rainfall months http://www.tmd.go.th/en/province_stat.p ... mber=48354

If you did mean Udon, I'd say August and September on average, although there isn't an enormous difference.

[rjj04]

Update: At the end of July Udon precip was the 5th worst (of 102 yrs of data)
By the end of August it was down to the 3rd worst

Although this month has certainly had some rain, my guess is that it hasn't been nearly enough to
get the numbers off the bottom.

UDON.doc

Monthly precipitation data to the end of August

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[rjj04]

Update on precipitation as of Nov 1st..
MAE_HONG_SON_MUAI_ This is 35/59
CHIANG_RAI_ This is 60/65
MAE_SARIANG_ This is 20/43
CHIANG_MAI(CIV_AFB) This is 18/102
PHRAE_ This is 40/60
NAN_MUANG_NAN_ This is 53/66
UTTARADIT_EAST_ This is 33/62
LOEI_ This is 25/63
UDON_THANI(CIV_AFB) This is 0/102
MAE_SOT_TAK_ This is 7/33
PHITSANULOK_SARIT_ This is 24/102
PHETCHABUN_ This is 54/65
MUKDAHAN_BAKHON_PHA This is 22/41
NAKHON_SAWAN_PAKNAM This is 40/99
CHAIYAPHUM_ This is 52/57
ROI_ET_ This is 43/66
UBON_RATCHATHANI_AB This is 25/64
SUPHAN_BURI_ This is 39/65
LOP_BURI_ This is 36/65
PRACHIN_BURI_(ARMY) This is 36/65
SURIN_ This is 54/66
KANCHANABURI_ This is 53/62
BANGKOK_DON_MUANG_ This is 3/10
CHON_BURI_SATTAHIP_ This is 41/66
KO_SICHANG_(ISLAND) This is 4/16
ARANYAPRATHET_ This is 23/81
SATTAHIP_ This is 11/37
CHANTHABURI_ This is 27/102
PRACHUAP_KHIRI_KHAN This is 24/80
KHLONG_YAI_ This is 30/42
RANONG_ This is 36/65
SURAT_THANI_ This is 13/62
NAKHON_SI_THAMMARAT This is 60/63
PHUKET_ This is 12/26
PHUKET_INTL_AIRPORT This is 59/64
TRANG_ This is 27/66
SONGKHLA(THAI-NAVY) This is 83/89

Thankfully the rest of Thailand doesn't seem to have the drought problem Udon "had"... until lately.

[rjj04]

This time last year, the ground around my area was already saturated by the rains. This year it is dry, still awaiting the monsoon. For the last three months the village has been shutting the water supply off on weekends from 9-5 to ration the water supply, last year there was no problem. It would seem that the 2015 El Nino is already bringing back drought conditions....

http://www.ibtimes.com/el-nino-2015-be- ... ia-1918989

I guess I will have to push harder to get a well installed. If they are rationing water now, at the start of the El Nino event, next year this time they may not have any water to ration out.

SakonNakon(Army) This is 17/64
NakonPhanom This is 27/62
NongKhai This is 0/0
UTH This is 28/105
KhonKaen This is 23/65
Mukdahan This is 20/41
Chaiyaphum This is 55/57
RoiEt This is 25/66
UbonRatchathani(AB) This is 20/64
Korat This is 8/105
Surin This is 12/66

Rainfall data for 2015 till end of May - ranking N/M (Nth most heavy rainfall for May out of M years of data). Korat rainfall looks particularly abysmal so far this year.

[papafarang]

woke up at 2 am, some serious thunder, got up this morning to find it's only slightly damp outside

[mortiboy]

woke up at 2 am, some serious thunder, got up this morning to find it's only slightly damp outside

Dean, You only a stones throw away, But here it pissed down in the night .
You should have waited

[747man]

woke up at 2 am, some serious thunder, got up this morning to find it's only slightly damp outside

Dean, You only a stones throw away, But here it pissed down in the night .
You should have waited

Yeah !! As Dean said,Some SERIOUS Thunder but very LITTLE Rain in Nongers....

[mortiboy]

So WTF was tapping on my window? was dreaming.....or was it PEEEEeee
Or JS come to haunt me! :-"

[Khun Paul]

had enough NOW last night 5 hours of rain

[old timer]

had enough NOW last night 5 hours of rain

Wasn't you asleep? Or did you stay up to time how long The rain would last?

OT.............

[Khun Paul]

The dogs woke me at exactly 1235 am and I eventually went to sleep about 5 ish, hows that OT

[old timer]

The dogs woke me at exactly 1235 am and I eventually went to sleep about 5 ish, hows that OT

Yes, OT has been woken up before by the ruddy street dogs. Next place I buy in Udon is going to be in the countryside.
OT finds the rain therapeutic during the night in Udon, listening far away thunder turning into the pitter patter of rain drops falling and then turning into rain and torrential rain, heavy thunder, bright flashes of lightening and gale force winds tends to make me drop off quite easily.

OT.....................

[GT93]

Your roof in Udon obviously doesn't have some leaks OT ...

[mortiboy]

Your roof in Udon obviously doesn't have some leaks OT ...

First class houses dont leak GT! Not like us peasants houses

[rjj04]

Hmmm, the last couple of weeks over here in Sakon Nakhon province have been pretty dry. With only a month or so of the rainy season left there are some serious problems ahead for folks in the north and north-east of Thailand. Looking at the water level in the resevoirs in Chiang Mai area, they are averaging around 15% of capacity. At this point in time they ought to be around 80% at least. Even the dam in Udon (forgot the name) is only at 19%. It seems this Super El Nino is playing havoc with the weather pattern here. Great for my solar panels though.

Will we see very high vegetable pricess next year as water is rationed? I sure hope I am jumping the gun and the heavens start to pour down soon.

Idea... anybody who happens to have some land with a well might want to start vegetable gardening as a hobby

Check out the resevoir levels yourselves...

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

Three words for you all... abrupt climate change!

[pomps]

Thanks for the website link,yep luckily we have just drilled on our farmland and hit gold with water,sure helps water them veggies and water not too salty either

Lime trees loving it,selling a few off also

Still a few months left for the rainy season,hoping an absolute shower most days from now on

[rick]

Yes, good link. Only one major dam full and 4 more than half full in all of Thailand...... Our ponds are nearly a metre down on this time last year. We do have some wells, but only go into surface water table, usually dry up around May any way. Normally veg garden is waterlogged until end of September, we are growing some stuff already as still dry .... I expect we will have to give up the veg growing by March next year.

I think it is quite probable that Udon will be on water rationing by March as well, with only 19% in the main reservoir.

[parrot]

There's an article in the BP about low water levels in dams around Ayyuthaya affecting rice farmers......so I checked to see how Udon's main source of water is doing.
Judging by the stats/graph in http://www.thaiwater.net/DATA/REPORT/ph ... ?dam_id=13
not good:
Last year on 8 Sept, 67%, a bit less on the same day in 2013. But on Sept 8, 2015, the water level was 24%.

You can see the water levels for all the big dams around the country at http://www.thaiwater.net/DATA/REPORT/php/rid_bigcm.html

[pomps]

Maybe a small amount due between 16-18th for Bhumibol dam,4% useable water at present ,got me Golf umbrella at the ready in case any comes to Isaan
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/eas ... rs-vietnam

[pomps]

Thai news channel 3 showing a flooded Pattaya and their sukhumvit rd the worst,not remembering hearing ever before about Pattaya.
Probably like anywhere though with their blocked drainage systems like Bangkok,a bit of planning goes alongway