Tropical storm Kujira disappoints
Tropical storm Kujira is bringing some much needed rain, but most of it is going to China, particularly the island province of Hainan. Thus far, parts of Thailand's northeastern region are only receiving light rain to drizzle.
CCTV America reports strong gales and heavy rains hit the northern, central and eastern parts of Hainan on Monday, with the precipitation ranging from 50 mm to 150 mm. The rainy weather will continue through today.
Like Thailand, the island had been hit with a severe drought, causing drinking watershortages for 130,000 people and drying up 119 small reservoirs, CCTV America reported.
Unfortunately, the storm track is too far away to have much of an effect here. Weather radar shows a mixture of mist, drizzle to light rain stretching north to south from Sakhon Nakhon to Ubon Ratchathani with bands of rain reaching Roi Et and Chaiyaphum to the west. Khon Kaen reported light rain earlier in the day, but that has now stopped.
Kujira, which has now been downgraded, at least temporarily, to a tropicaldepression, is the only storm system reported in the Asia region at the moment, so the wait for rain continues