Hi,
Should not have said that the rain is abating. 15 mins. later there was a downpour. Still raining now, and not stopped since 0200Hrs yesterday. I curse those that prayed for rain. Please say another one to make it stop.

Nice steady rain all night and through the morning in Nong Khai.

Wonderfully cool, grey, dark, and drizzly... Let it rain!

Finished Infinite Jest and got quoted by mash in the same day.

Things can get pretty exciting around here in the rain. Back to it.

At least there's no dust in the air!!!! My lungs are loving it!

Opened the lids this morning ..........AND ITS STILL RAINING !!

Lovely n cool reminds me of a summers day in Scunny ,,,,,,,,,,and as Ronald Mcdonald says .......IM LOVIN IT

As Lurkio's soothsayer would say ....

"Woe, Woe and thrice Woe .... 40 days and 40 nights I tell ye"

I notice that Dallas, TX is supposed to be 109 today, Orlando FL 93, NYC 89, Los Angeles 91. Here we are living in a tropical climate and today's high was 76. It took some courage to take my outdoor cold-water shower today.....made easier because the well water is 77......warmer than the outside air.
It's sometimes difficult to explain to people back in the US why we choose to live here. .....strike that......it's not difficult to explain, but it's often difficult for people who don't live here to understand why we do. They'd all be asking why I didn't take a hot water shower inside the house. They don't get it!

An inch of slow-ground-soaking rain over the past 24 hours 18km outside of town.

Given a choice of more rain or less, it'd probably be in everyone's best interests to do some rain dances at home to get the water levels in the city's main reservoir back to normal. According to the article in Thai Rath, the water levels are at 21%, normal for this time of the year is 60%.
http://www.thairath.co.th/content/region/285256

Wow, somebody out there has a rain dance they need to get a patent on. Coincidence, me thinks not.

Indeed. It seems every time I access this post, it's started to pee down.

it appears the monsoonal flow is pushing typhoons a bit further north than usual.. The last several have tagged the Philippines, tracked to southern China then hit northern Vietnam, northern Laos with us just getting the edge of the rainfall and usually just a lot of clouds... July and August are usually are two highest rainfall months http://www.tmd.go.th/en/province_stat.p ... mber=48354

FrazeeDK wrote:.. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

papafarang wrote: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

mortiboy wrote:

papafarang wrote: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....

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

had enough NOW last night 5 hours of rain

Khun Paul wrote: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.............