34 provinces on alert as storm Rai covers Thailand
The Meteorological Department issued a warning on September 13 to people in 34 provinces in the North, Northeast and East to brace for heavy rain and stay tuned for weather updates. As of early Wednesday, tropical storm “Rai” was over Laos and the Northeast on September 14. The storm was dissipating but dumping tonnes of rain throughout that region. The tropical depression — when a low pressure area is accompanied by thunderstorms — was moving west to northwest at 20kph when it reached Da Nang in the night of September 12 before moving toward the Northeast of Thailand in the evening of September 13. Heavy rain is likely to occur in many of the provinces in the North, Northeast and the Central Plains, extending as far as Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom, Nakhon Ratchasima, Chon Buri and Chiang Mai.
