Winter will officially start in Thailand on Thursday with the coldest period from mid-December to early February.
This was announced on Tuesday by Suchada Thaensap, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society.
She said the official beginning of winter was this Thursday, Oct 23. Temperatures would then continuously drop and rainfall would noticeably decline in the upper regions of Thailand, and the country would be blanketed by northeasterly or easterly winds.
‘However, this does not mean that cold weather will start simultaneously in all regions in the country,’ Ms Suchada said.
According to Ms Suchada low temperatures in Thailand this winter will average 21-22°C, similar to last winter.
Mountaintop temperatures may drop to 7-8°C and there could be frosts some mornings in the northern and upper northeastern provinces of Mae Hong Son, Chiang Rai, Phayao, Nan, Loei, Nakhon Phanom and Sakon Nakhon.
The lowest temperatures in Greater Bangkok were forecast at 18-20°C.
Sugunyanee Yavinchan, director-general of the Meteorological Department, said during the initial period of winter the weather could fluctuate. It could rain in parts of the Northeast, the Central Plain, the East and Greater Bangkok.