South Thailand Hit By Worst Rain in 300 Years

[PeterRS]

Reports indicate that the south of the country has been hit by its worst rainfall in 300 years. Ten Provinces have been hit with the city of Hat Yai being the worst. It experienced 335 mm in a single day. Desperate residents are perched on rooftops. More than 2 million peope have been affected.  Military ships including an aircraft carrier with supplies, a flotilla of boats and rescue helicopters have been mobiised to help residents. 33 have aleady died.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg97wx144jo

Hat Yai: photo Weerapong Narongkul Bangkok Post

[Keithambrose]

2 hours ago, PeterRS said:

Reports indicate that the south of the country has been hit by its worst rainfall in 300 years. Ten Provinces have been hit with the city of Hat Yai being the worst. It experienced 335 mm in a single day. Desperate residents are perched on rooftops. More than 2 million peope have been affected.  Military ships including an aircraft carrier with supplies, a flotilla of boats and rescue helicopters have been mobiised to help residents. 33 have aleady died.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg97wx144jo

Hat Yai: photo Weerapong Narongkul Bangkok Post

I took off from Suvarnabhumi on Monday, and after about 5 mins, all you could see was flooding everywhere,  it went on for many miles, roads disappeared,  isolated patches of high  ground. Odd houses, otherwise just water. 

[llz]

Five minutes after taking off from Suwannaphum, you were not flying above Hat Yai for sure.

What you saw was the Central plains where the situation on the ground is now much less critical than it seems when looking from above. 

 

[PeterRS]

3 hours ago, Keithambrose said:

I took off from Suvarnabhumi on Monday, and after about 5 mins, all you could see was flooding everywhere,  it went on for many miles, roads disappeared,  isolated patches of high  ground. Odd houses, otherwise just water. 

Agree with @llz. Unless you were flying due south for at least 30 minutes, it would have been impossible to see the flooding in the south. To the north of Bangkok there is a much lesser degree of flooding after the Chao Phraya dischage rate was increased. Even though that took place three months ago, some parts of Ayutthaya Province remain under some water.