Thailand is bracing for a potentially devastating Tropical Storm named Pabuk, which is set to bring heavy rains and high seas to the country’s southern provinces and famed beach resorts popular with domestic and foreign tourists……….felix
Weather authorities on Thursday said the storm was moving west from the tip of Indonesia into the Gulf of Thailand with maximum winds of 65 kilometres an hour.
Heavy downpours are forecast until Saturday in most parts of southern Thailand, including popular tourist destinations such as Phuket, Koh Samui and Krabi.
There has been no official evacuation order but tens of thousands of tourists have fled the resort islands of Koh Phangan and Koh Tao as tourists packed onto ferries bound for the southern Thai mainland, as swimming was banned and boats were set to suspend services.The acting mayor of Koh Tao, one of Southeast Asia’s finest diving spots, said boats to Chumphon on the mainland were crammed with tourists, but several thousand guests were still on the island likely to brave the storm.
Pabuk, which means a giant catfish in Lao, is Thailand’s first tropical storm in the area outside of the monsoon season for around 30 years.
By admin
January 11, 2019
