wet weekend a likelihood 🌦️ ⚡️ 🌧️ 🌦️ ⚡️ 🌧️ drought conditions coming

Most forecasters agree: rain thunderstorms Friday through the weekend.  Light and heavy alternate

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Rain is on the way, just when and how much is debated

TMD is advising : Summer storms in upper Thailand (affecting the period from April 16-20, 2026)

Nothing to see on weather maps as of now. Local forecasts indicate we may see some rain and some extreme feels like temperatures next week.

	Th16	Fr17	Sa18	Su19	Mo20	Tu21	We22	Th23
Accuweather	☀️ 42	☀️ 43	☀️ 43	☀️ 40	⚡️ 41	🌧️ 41	☀️ 43	⚡️ 45
BBC	☀️ 44	☀️ 44	⚡️ 45	☀️ 45	⚡️ 45	🌦️ 45	🌦️ 46	🌦️ 45
Wunderground	☀️ 42	☀️ 43	☀️ 39	⚡️ 38	⚡️ 38	☀️ 40	☀️ 42	☀️ 41

☀️ Sunny, scattered clouds

🌦️ Light or scattered Rain

🌧️ Rain

⚡️ Scattered to heavy Thunder Storms

Extended forecasts indicate possible months of drought conditions through the year of 2026, for which El Nino is blamed.  Global warming is making the situation much worse

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Temperatures climbing becoming a health hazard especially to vulnerable

Temperature at 05:55 this morning

The weather experience over the past week makes me believe BBC forecast is the most accurate. 

Air con units are in high demand at the moment.  Gaining in popularity are AI self cleaning units.  Meanwhile consider checking the dust filters on your unit.

Hot season is also high fire season. Northern Thailand seems to have the most active fires at the moment.   Active Fire Hotspot :: ฐานข้อมูลจุดความร้อน กรมป่าไม้

Past weekend had a number of parades and festivities.  A few I knew about ahead of time, while others, such as the Phra That Phu Phek festivities, came to light after picture and video posts of the events.

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No Reprive imminent

If there is any rain to be had, it would be locally created by a combination of high temperatures and humidity
convectional rainfall, a mechanism where intense surface heating causes warm, humid air to rise rapidly, condense, and produce localized rain showers or thunderstorms. This process is common in tropical regions and during summer, often leading to afternoon rain that forms in the same spot it originates, as the clouds are not moved by significant winds

Reprive = Cancel or postpone สกลนคร Sakon Nakhon

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Early morning rain started right after I had watered the plants.

image Google Earth 9 am 

Most of the weather system moving west to east seems to stay north of Sakon City

For an updated version of the animation go to http://www.sattmet.tmd.go.th/satmet/mergesat.html

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Delay of hot season 😙

"Scattered" thunderstorms one or two days. or all week . . . 

Depends on which forecaster you follow.

Thai Meteorology Department: "today and every day next week"   Accuweather: "Monday, Thursday and Friday"

BBC: "all week except Thursday

Wunderground: "Tuesday,Wednesday, Saturday"

System arriving from the west.  Sakon City seems to be at the south edge of the system.  But that can change

images 5 am

Noteworthy:  the system seems to increase humidity, thus the feels like temperatures will be hot some days

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There may be a day of rain end of March, otherwise not much of a spring rain in the local forecasts yet

At age 81 dust is becoming a noticeable problem. If there is any doubt. I sweep a four meter pathway every day, and every day there's a pile of dust. Pictured are three days piles
After encoutering facial skin problems, especially pimples on my nose, I started washing my face at least four times a day in hot water to open pores, then use rubbing alcohol cautiously on my face and neck for cleaning. Pictured is the early morning face rinse after getting out of bed

Due to the dust in the air, I have a severe sleeping problem. Wake up during the night with a very dry throat from breathing through my mouth because my nose is clogged. First night with a air purifier, very minimal dry throat สกลนคร Sakon Nakhon

😤Local air quality: moderate ☀️ UV mostly high, 😎 and 🎩 recommended

Temperature forecast numbers differ.

On average, no fan needed overnight for now.

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Cold spell will ease up after the weekend

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Forecast calls for cooler nights ahead

Chart depicts overnight lows expexted through January

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A few fairly warm nights, then slightly cooler

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Neighbor doors banging, occasional high wind gusts

That's usually an indication of changing weather conditions 

Cold coming our way

The cold air seems to be coming from Northeast

Of the number of forecast I check 14 Celsius may be the lowest overnight temperature this week.  Keep in mind crawling and flying insects will also be looking for warmer accomodations and may want to follow you insideสกลนคร Sakon Nakhon

Worldwide rainfall is increasing

largely due to global warming, which increases evaporation and adds more moisture to the atmosphere, creating the conditions for more extreme precipitation.

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There's a cold front heading this way almost time to unpack the electric heater

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It's going to be a DOOZY of a storm

Expect all those flood prone areas to be under water.

Heavy rain most likely will be accompanied by high winds.

Anticipate possible power failures, charge up all devices

                                           Zoom weather service rain forecast map Monday, 10:am.   For a more  current update, click on the image

                                           Ventusky weather service paints a similar picture.  For a more  current update, click on the image

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Weather: Four days ago we had a morning drizzle which lasted about ten minutes, maybe a millimeter of water. Same this morning, maybe a millimeter. Yesterday driving to Immigration office on my motorcycle I noted a raindrop about every 30 seconds mostly on my arms.  Summary: Not much rain in four days

WAR: Plenty of news clips from many sources

Recommend YouTube (filter 'This week") Thailand news

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Heavy rain, some winds, but Wipha will stay out of town

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Wipha is just the starter, there will be more

AccuWeather  22 July 35 km/h winds, rain 95%

forecast         23 July 19 km/h winds, rain 98%

 

 

Updated every 10 minutes, Zoom shows movements of storms, wind speeds and directions

      

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there will ne more
See them red spots on the other side of the Philippines

Sakon Nakhon City on edge of Wipha

Most storm tracking maps have the storm edge just north of Sakon Nakhon  city.  The coolest day on 23 July (25°), the wettest days on 22 and 23 July

There is still a bit of uncertainty for those two days. Forecasts for the city  are varied from  rain - shower - 21mm  -cloudy. 

Probably an accurate update can be expected once Wipha makes landfall in Vietnam

Storm tracking map at ZOOM

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