Bangkok Weather

[Guest fountainhall]

Last night I was awakened by the strongest rain I have experienced in years. The accompanying wind blew off a set of bamboo wind chimes which have been securely fastened on my balcony for more than six years. I see the Bangkok Post is warning of "thunderstorms, strong winds, and hailstorms today". A few hours late for Bangkok!

[Guest kjun12]

It was a real wing-dinger. Did cool things off a bit though and that makes me happy. It was getting entirely too hot.

[Guest GaySacGuy]

We had a brief shower with strong winds here in Ubon Ratchathani. This was the first rain of the "season", with our last rain being back in Oct. or Nov. Guess we will have to get ready for the wet season!!

[Bob]

Here in Chiangmai, it rained all day and I'd guess that it was the coldest day of this entire winter. Somewhat windy most of the day with some fairly strong gusts this evening. Overall, a great winter here (definitely cooler than last year) although it's rained perhaps a dozen times since November (last year, I think there was one very brief sprinkle between November and April).

[Guest fountainhall]

For the time of year, it was also very cold in Bangkok today. I was out for much of the day and wished I had taken a sweater.

[Guest GaySacGuy]

Very cool here in Ubon also, and partly cloudy today. It was 16C 61F overnight here at the house...almost need a sweater or long sleeves this morning. Now at 9a.am it is only 21C/71F. Quite nice actually. But I am sure that the heat is just around the corner!

[Guest fountainhall]

Bangkok was 17.6C an hour ago. It's now just 18.6 at almost 11:00 am. Where is this cold weather coming from?

[Bob]

Another cold, rainy, and blustery day in Chiangmai. Presently (18.20) it is 17C with a low of 15C tonight. But supposed to be partly cloudy tomorrow with a high of 24C (and up to 35C by Monday). Strange, strange, weather.

[Guest fountainhall]

. . . and we can't even blame it on George Bush now!

[pong]

today, FR 18, same same again. Read it had dropped to 16/18 here in town. ANYone wears jackets, woollies or even blankets and the windows of buses remian closed. Whereas there is usually a winter of 2-3 days around 1/1, when it drops to 20 cels or maybe just below, this is very, very rare for march-with songkran coming in 1 month-when it should be hottest. It is cold blowing winds from the north-so they must come from Siberia via China. But strange that it remains cloudy too.

Yesterday I enjoyed a shopping centre, that otherwise would be freezing cold-it was warmer in as outside-some times AC with set temps can even be a godsend.

Now I just hope that some enormous thunderstorm and big rain may fall tomorrow, to ensure a short circuit in the kilowatts of the red mobs. Just PraNakorn is enough for that.

[Guest fountainhall]

ANYone wears jackets, woollies or even blankets and the windows of buses remian closed.

I wore a sweater outside yesterday. First time I can recall after many years here in Bangkok.

[Guest kjun12]

I wore a sweater outside yesterday.

Admit it Fountainhall, you just wanted to show off your nice sweater. Certainly a Brit like you can't be suffering in this bit of cool air.

[Guest fountainhall]

How did you guess? Well, I may have been brought up in the UK, but I have lived in hot parts of Asia for 32 years and could not survive now in cold weather. But it's nice to wear a nice sweater once in a while, instead of just draping one over my shoulders Now i read that it will be cold again next week, so I'll have to dig out another cute little number . . . !

[Guest sydneyboy]

Could anyone give practical information on the weather in Bangkok in June? Although it is the wet season according to the weather charts the rainfall is less than May or July. Are there whole days without rain? Is it a good time to be in Bangkok?

[pong]

Could anyone give practical information on the weather in Bangkok in June? Although it is the wet season according to the weather charts the rainfall is less than May or July. Are there whole days without rain? Is it a good time to be in Bangkok?

for me it is always a good time in BKK. As the above also suggests-even here he wheather is much more changeable as many people think of tropics.

Yes-there will be days without rain. if that makes them better-I dare say no. Those rains cool it off, clean the air and make anything greener. Otherwise it gets stuffy hot and humid. In fact I find that humidity more exhausting as the rains itself. Mostly it is 1 big hourlong downpour in the afternoon.

Those tables reflect the total water falling-the later in the year you get longer and heavier downpours, but not necessarily fewer or more. It will also depend as to how much you have experienced that type of wheather.