More hot days ahead
published : 24 Apr 2024 at 13:41
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
Weathermen warn that temperatures could hit new highs between Friday and Tuesday, with the wet season not due to start until the third week of May.
The Meteorological Department said on Wednesday morning that the heat wave would continue through Wednesday and Thursday.
From Friday through to Tuesday next week, westerly and northwesterly winds would reach the North, Northeast, Central Plain and the East, with high temperatures that could break records set in 2016 and 2023.
A record 44.6°C was measured in Mae Hong Son province on April 28, 2016, and again in Tak province on April 15, 2023.
This year's high to date is 44.2°C, in Lampang on Monday this week.
Along with the extremely hot weather, demand for electricity set a new high on Monday night of 35,830 megawatts.
Vocabulary
- break a record (idiom): to do something better than anyone has every done before, e.g., faster, higher, more times, etc. - ทำลายสถิติ
- heat wave (noun): a period of time of several days when it is very hot - คลื่นอากาศร้อน
- megawatt (noun): a unit for measuring electrical power; one million watts - หนึ่งร้อยล้านวัตต์ (คำย่อคือ MW)
- Meteorological Department: the government department in charge of determining what the weather will be in the future - กรมอุตุนิยมวิทยา
- record: the best or most ever achieved - สถิติ
