Rain brings relief to Thailand’s drought-stricken provinces
The number of drought-hit provinces has more than halved after rain made an appearance in the upper North and Northeast, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department said Sunday.
Department chief Chatchai Promlert said 40 provinces were reported as drought-hit until the weekend, when welcome rain eased the situation in 27 provinces. A Meteorological Department report issued Sunday morning said a monsoon trough lies across Myanmar, Laos and upper Vietnam, declining to a low pressure cell in the Gulf of Tonkin which is causing rainfall in the upper North and Northeast.
