Weather Advisory
Subject: Tropical
Depression over the lower South China Sea
No. 2 (344/2024)
At 10.00
p.m. LST (22 December 2024), tropical depression over the lower South China Sea
was centered about 660 kilometers northeast of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam or at
latitude 11.0 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 to intensify to tropical storm and move near eastern coast of
Vietnam during 24–25 December 2024.
It is likely to downgrade to tropical depression and an active-low pressure cell,
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 lower Gulf are likely about 2 meters high, 1 - 2
meters high in the upper Gulf 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 22 December 2024, at 11.00 a.m.
This next issue will be on 23 December
2024, at 5.00 a.m.
(Signed)
Sugunyanee Yavinchan
(Miss Sugunyanee Yavinchan)
Director-General
Thai Meteorological Department
