Thailand hit by high temperatures, summer storms

NAKHON RATCHASIMA, THAILAND, April 2 (TNA) - Many areas in Thailand have been hit by high temperatures, up to 40 degrees Celsius, causing summer storms and subsequent damages. A summer storm was reported in Nakhon Ratchasima Province in the Thai Northeast on Wednesday, damaging trees and property at many locations in the Nakhon Ratchasima Municipality and causing an over 10-meter-long balcony to collapse on a noodle shop on Mukhamontree Road and also hit high voltage electrical wires that snapped and caught fire, but no one was injured. In Kalasin Province, also in the Thai Northeast, temperatures also rose to 40 degrees Celsius and air-conditioners are selling like hot cakes, though lower than last year due to local economic problems. Most local consumers have bought small air-conditioners, while some people have had technicians clean their old air-conditioners instead. The Wing 46 in Phitsanulok Province in the Lower Thai North has, in the meantime, deployed its rainmaking planes to help relieve drought and haze in Udon Thani and Songkhla Provinces. Meanwhile, the Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives is encouraging households to grow plants as an activity to celebrate the 60th birthday anniversary of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on April 2, with at least six million plants expected to be grown in the campaign. Interested people can register to join the campaign via the “we grow” application and they will then be distributed fruit plants of 60 species to grow.(TNA)