Koh Samui, Thailand daily weather update; 22nd October, 2011

Today's weather;

This morning Samui's sky is dark and grey and it's raining with a soundtrack of thunder in the background. Current temp at 7am is 24.5C

The forecast is slowly changing and it looks like a little bit more rain will be ours almost each day. Nothing too serious and there's still room for sunshine on most days.

Yesterday saw a nice during the day time, there's were some dark clouds but no rain emerged except for a short shower around noon. It may have rained harder or more at other parts of Koh Samui. During the night things changed and I woke up a few times last night because of thunder. Max temp reached 30.3C

Samui sky yesterday during the day time

In Bangkok it's getting more crucial each day. Yesterday I posted about the current situation, including a flood picture of 1942, here are some more Bangkok flood pictures from 1983 and 1995 and some current flood pictures of last week.

Criticism of the government keeps growing; "In truth, Ms Yingluck's handling of the situation has sparked a crisis of faith. More than the indecision, her chief flaw is how she failed to make people listen."

The PM tries to take charge by invoking a 'disaster law'. There is one painful fact at this stage of the flood disaster: The waters need to pass through Bangkok as fast as possible to ease the suffering of people in other flooded areas.

The authorities should learn from their failure in protecting industrial estates like Nava Nakorn and Bang Kadi and dispatch a team of experts and soldiers to save industrial parks like Lat Krabang from getting submerged in the days to come.

Here's a time line of flooding of industrial estates.

This weekend will tell us how Bangkok will fare. Let's hope for the best.

Camille