Saadet Gokce<\/p>\n
26 September 2026\u2022Update: 26 September 2026<\/p>\n
All 50 districts of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, have been declared disaster zones amid heavy rain and flooding.<\/p>\n
The weather has caused traffic disruptions and affected daily life, with eastern Bangkok among the hardest-hit areas, according to the Bangkok Post.<\/p>\n
The declaration allows the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, other state agencies and local administrations to take faster and more coordinated action in affected areas.<\/p>\n
Residents were warned via a cell broadcast that water levels in canals, already at critical levels, were expected to rise further.<\/p>\n
The Meteorological Department said the unsettled weather was caused by a strong low-pressure system over the lower Central Plains, Bangkok and nearby provinces, along with a strengthening southwest monsoon over the Andaman Sea, the South and the Gulf of Thailand.<\/p>\n
Heavy rain is expected nationwide through Sunday, the department warned on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration said flooding could ease within six hours if no additional rain falls, with pumping stations operating at full capacity.<\/p>\n
Residents in some neighborhoods also engaged in panic buying, as they stocked up on essentials amid concerns the flooding could worsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saadet Gokce 26 September 2026\u2022Update: 26 September 2026 All 50 districts of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, have been declared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,180755,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-784026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-sitekeywords","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}