Koh Samui, Thailand daily weather update; 10th April, 2011

Today's weather;

Blue skies this morning on Samui. Good to be home, yay! Current temp at 7am is around 25C

Yesterday I arrived already at 10.40am at the Donsak ferry and by 1pm I was back home! The whole trip saw sunshine but lo and behold, in the Surat Thani area there were some clouds but not a single drop of rain! Samui saw a hot and sunny afternoon with a max temp around 30C

Pretty soon after arriving back home I went around and had a look on my motorbike and although there's some damage, especially fairly easily to spot for residents, like a pothole or six more than there was on the roads compared to when I left, it all seems under control and back to normal.

All main roads on Samui are dry with an occasional puddle, it's some of the secondary roads and short cuts that most tourists wouldn't even know of or use that may still have some flooded parts, but than again nothing is deeper than 2 or 3 cm's. In Chaweng and Choengmon some 7-11's are being fixed and should be ready to open again soon.

Samui is all fine and there's no reason not to visit, same for Koh Phangan and Koh Tao!

One of the two collapsed bridges on highway 44 between Krabi/Phuket and Surat Thani

Yesterdays trip from Koh Lanta (with a successful PADI IE to boost!) to Samui was smooth. All roads were open and no water anywhere on a road. The only ripple were two collapsed bridges on highway 44 (South bound), within 200 meters of each other and the traffic was all on one side of the road. The road from the highway to the ferry was fine as well, nothing like 26th March when I almost got stuck.

Near Surat Thani was a lot of water damage and still a lot of flooded areas but things were definitely under control and repair work was in full swing.

The death toll is now at 59 and the Prime Minister, Abhisit visited Surat and Nakhon Si Thammarat yesterday, see The Nation for a report.

Severe flooding in the southern provinces has killed 59 people, totally destroyed 396 homes, and damaged 5,769 roads and 1.1 million rai of farmland, according to the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department.

The department said the flooding, which hit 10 southern provinces since last month, has receded in six provinces while Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phatthalung, Surat Thani and Trang remain submerged, with some 461,794 people affected.

Camille