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Nepal is likely to receive above-normal monsoon rains this year, according to meteorologists from South Asia. Ideally, this raises prospects for growth in the economy battered by the Covid pandemic.

Authorities and aid agencies have long been warning about a looming natural disaster in the densely populated camps during monsoon.

The Royal Thai Navy’s Hydrographic Department has announced that the level of Chao Phraya River near Samut Prakan’s Phra Chulachomklao Fort will rise by up to 1.9 metres from Saturday to December 27.

Rescuers are finding it hard transporting dead Covid-19 patients from a flooded Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital.

More than 500,000 rai of land in northern Thailand has been swamped by floods so far, with this monsoon season seeing severe storms and intensified rains, according to the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda) this morning.

Easterly and southeasterly winds prevail over Thailand while a weak southwest monsoon lies over the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, resulting in less rain across the country, the Meteorological Department said on Wednesday.

Sixteen provinces have been hit by flash floods caused by heavy monsoon rain that has lashed Thailand since last week, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reported on Tuesday.

A strong southwest monsoon prevails across the Andaman Sea, Thailand and the Gulf of Thailand, while an active monsoon trough lies across the lower North, the upper Central, and the Northeast, the Thailand Meteorological Department said on Saturday.

Less rain is likely over Thailand except for isolated heavy showers in the lower South amid a weakening southwest monsoon across the country, the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, the Meteorological Department said on Wednesday.

The Thailand Meteorological Department said on Tuesday that the southwest monsoon prevailing over the Andaman Sea, Thailand and the Gulf of Thailand was weakening, while a low pressure system still covered upper Vietnam.

Floods have affected thousands of residents in the countrys Kayin, Mon, Rakhine states, and Tanintharyi and Bago regions so far.

More rains are likely in the Northeast, the East and the South with isolated heavy rains on the west coast of the South, the Thailand Meteorological Department said on Monday.