The floods in Chiang Mai were more widespread. The water level continues to rise. Many points in the city Villagers travel through the water that overflows the road. Expected noon today to hit 4.60 centimeters.
Flood situation in Chiang Mai Throughout the night, the water level in the Ping River flowing through Chiang Mai city continued to rise. Exceeding the river bank level or the critical point at 3.70 meters since the latest evening at 10:00 am, the water level rose to 4.54 centimeters, overflowing the banks and flooding houses in many areas on both sides of the river in Pa Daet Subdistrict, Nong Hoi Subdistrict and Subdistrict Elephant Klan, especially at Pa Prao Nok Village, Ban Den, Ban Nong Hoi, Wiang Thong Village The water level is more than 1 meter high and more than 500 homes are expected to be affected.
As many roads began to flood especially in the economic districts like Chang Klan Road Charoen Prathet Road, including Koh Klang Road and Chiang Mai-Lamphun Road, the old line, partially flooded Small cars can’t travel. Chiang Mai Municipality Urgent announcement for people in zones 1 to zone 5 on both sides of the river to hurry to move their valuables up high
As for the trend until now, there is still water mass flowing into the Ping River in the northern district continuously. After the heavy rain last night The Bureau of Irrigation 1 forecasts that water levels in urban areas at the p1 monitoring station at the foot of Nawarat Bridge will continue to rise to 4.60 by noon today. As for when it will start to stabilize, we still need to closely monitor the situation.
