Weather Advisory
Subject: Tropical
Depression over the lower South China Sea
No.4 (346/2024)
At 7.00 a.m.
LST (23 December 2024), tropical depression over the lower South China Sea was centered
about 680 kilometers northeast of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam or at latitude 11.5
degrees north and longitude 113.0 degrees east. With maximum sustained winds
about 55 km./hr. This storm is moving northwest at a speed of 15 km/hr., expected
will intensify and move near eastern coast of Vietnam during 24–25 December 2024. It is likely to
downgrade respectively. This causes the easterly and southeasterly winds will bring
the moisture from the South China Sea and the Gulf to upper Thailand with
isolated rains in the lower North, the Northeast, the Central including Bangkok
and its vicinity and the East while more rains are forecast in the South during
25-26 December
2024. People
in the areas should keep healthy due to the variable weather and farmers should
prepare for crop’s damage due to isolated rains.
The
moderate wind and waves in the Gulf are likely about 2 meters high, and above 2
meters high in thundershowers. In the Andaman Sea, the waves are likely about 1
meter high, 1-2 meters high offshore and above 2 meters high in thundershowers. All
ships should proceed with caution and keep off thundershowers.
This advisory
is in effect on 23 December 2024, at 11.00 a.m.
This next issue will be on 23 December
2024, at 5.00 p.m.
(Signed)
Sugunyanee Yavinchan
(Miss Sugunyanee Yavinchan)
Director-General
Thai Meteorological Department
