No, Thailand's Flooding Is Not From Typhoon Dolphin — and the Difference Matters
Thailand spent the last week under heavy rain warnings. A super typhoon is sitting in the Pacific. The two stories ran side by side in the same news cycles, and a lot of people connected them. They are not connected. The Thai Meteorological Department has been explicit: Dolphin is not expected to affect Thailand directly. A tropical system over Southeast Asian waters. Library image for illustration. It is not live satellite imagery of the storm discussed here — for current imagery use the agency links below. What is actually causing it Two things, both ordinary for the season. A monsoon trough is lying across the upper North and Northeast. And a rather strong southwesterly monsoon is running over the Andaman Sea, Thailand and the Gulf of Thailand. That combination produces exactly what is being observed — heavy to very heavy rain across the North, Northeast, Central region, the East, and down the South's west coast. TMD has warned about flash floods, run-off, landslide...