South East Asia Weather

[ryant1234]

Thought I would start up a thread as this region doesn't have one.

Parts of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo have been impacted by flooding. Its hard to find exact amounts from the recent event but i found in this article

"Bintulu received nearly 800mm of rain in the last 48 hours, meteorologist Jason Nicholls with commercial fo

recaster AccuWeather said late on Jan 29.

https://ihydro.sarawak.gov.my/iHydro/en ... on=1013286

The 1600mm total over a few days at a bintulu site seems suspect to me

I had a friend complain about it being cold near Kuching in Sarawak, she didnt say the temperature but i assume a cold day is a humid 26 degrees maximum. Its crazy how heavy an average shower is there during the monsoon season

Having the threat of crocodiles and snakes (like in north Australia) in that water wouldn't be nice.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-as ... ian-states

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

It says thunder everytime I look at the world temperatures for Singapore in the newspaper.
How come everytime I've been there has been fine but hot and humid and hazy?
No lightning strikes appear on the Blitz for that region, so I suppose that most lightning strikes, if they occur, must be in the cloud.?

[ryant1234]

I'm not sure. I usually see some occasional lightning in clouds when flying through that region overnight.

Sometimes it's just a brief storm within the area i am guessing. I wonder what the benchmark is.

If you look on forums to do with Thailand for example, people worry about the forecast when it says rain but it just means brief potential rain for anywhere in the region. It doesn't mean it will rain where you are

Speaking of thunder, I'm pretty sure Kuala Lumpur registers around 260 days a year. Last time I went there was a lightning strike so close to this covered food area I was eating in some people screamed , gosh it was loud.