Weather Advisory
Subject: Storm
“WIPHA” and heavy to very heavy rain in Thailand
No.11 (197/2025)
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At
10.00 a.m. LST (22 July 2025), severe tropical storm
“WIPHA” was made landfall over Thai Binh, Vietnam or at latitude 20.5 degrees
north and longitude 106.4 degrees east with maximum sustained winds about 83 km./hr. This storm is moving west with
a speed of 15 km/hr., forecast to downgrade to the tropical depression and the
low-pressure cell, respectively. It is likely to move
along the monsoon through lying upper Laos and the upper North. Meanwhile the strong
southwest monsoon prevails across the Andaman Sea, Thailand and the Gulf.
The
effects of storm “WIPHA” are impacts of heavy to very heavy rain and
strong wind in the North, the upper Northeast, western Central and the East during
22-24 July 2025. People in the country should beware of
heavy to very heavy rain and accumulation that may cause flash floods and
overflows especially along the waterways near foothills and lowlands.
Affected areas are as followings
22
July 2025
North: Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Chiang
Rai, Lamphun, Lampang, Phayao, Nan, Phrae, Uttaradit, Sukhothai, Tak, Kamphaeng
Phet, Phichit, Phitsanulok and Phetchabun.
Northeast:
Loei, Nong Khai, Bueng Kan, Nong
Bua Lam Phu, Udon Thani, Sakon Nakhon,
Nakhon Phanom, Chaiyaphum, Khon Kaen, Kalasin and
Mukdahan.
Central:
Nakhon
Sawan, Uthai Thani, Chainat, Lopburi, Saraburi, Kanchanaburi and Ratchaburi
East:
Nakhon Nayok, Prachin
Buri, Chanthaburi and Trat
South: Phetchaburi and Prachuap Khiri
Khan.
23
July 2025
North:
Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai,
Chiang Rai, Lamphun, Lampang, Phayao, Nan, Phrae, Uttaradit, Sukhothai, Tak, Kamphaeng
Phet, Phichit, Phitsanulok and Phetchabun.
Northeast:
Loei, Nong Khai, Bueng Kan, Nong
Bua Lam Phu, Udon Thani, Sakon Nakhon,
Nakhon
Phanom, Mukdahan, Nakhon Ratchasima, and
Ubon Ratchathani
Central:
Nakhon
Sawan, Uthai Thani, Kanchanaburi, and Ratchaburi
East:
Nakhon Nayok, Prachin
Buri, Sa Kaeo, Chanthaburi, and Trat
South: Phetchaburi and Prachuap Khiri
Khan
24
July 2025
North:
Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai,
Chiang Rai, Lamphun, Lampang, Phayao, Nan, Phrae, Uttaradit,
Sukhothai, Tak, Kamphaeng Phet, Phichit, Phitsanulok and Phetchabun.
Northeast:
Loei, Nong Khai, Bueng Kan, Udon
Thani, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom, Mukdahan, Amnat Charoen and Ubon Ratchathani.
Central:
Nakhon
Sawan, Uthai Thani and Kanchanaburi
East: Nakhon
Nayok, Prachin Buri, Chanthaburi, and Trat
South: Phetchaburi and Prachuap Khiri
Khan
The rather strong wind forces the waves in the Andaman
Sea and the upper Gulf up to 2-4 meters high and above 4 meters high in
thundershowers. All ships in the Andaman Sea and the Gulf should proceed with
caution and keep off thundershowers, small boats in the Andaman Sea and the
upper Gulf should keep ashore during this period.
This
advisory is in effect on 22 July 2025, at 11.00 a.m.
This next issue will be on 22
July 2025, at 05.00 p.m.
(Signed) Sugunyanee Yavinchan
(Miss Sugunyanee Yavinchan)
Director-General
Thai Meteorological Department
