Powerful winds pushed tables and chairs into a swimming pool at a condominium in Thailand.

Footage shows the freak storm sweeping away the furniture into the water in front of stunned residents as the heavy rain poured in Samut Prakan province on April 25.

Terrified resident Pon Watcharapon said he was swimming when the weather suddenly shifted, and the gusts blew as he left the amenity.

He said: ‘I didn't have enough time to leave. It happened so fast. The next thing I knew, the tables and chairs were rolling down the pool.'

The storm came as temperatures soared to 45 degrees Celsius last week during a heat wave across the Asia Pacific region.

Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist and weather historian, described the scorching heat as the 'worst April heatwave in Asian history'.

In Thai capital Bangkok, residents were warned not to go outside amid 42 degrees Celsius temperatures causing power outages due to surging demand from air con units and fans running.

The country's national weather service said the heat index - what the temperature feels like when combined with humidity - hit a record 54C (129F).

The warm weather is now giving way to extreme tropical storms.

The Thai Meteorological Department warned that southerly and southeasterly winds prevailing over upper Thailand would strengthen between April 23 and 26.

Outbreaks of summer storms, accompanied by thunderstorms, gusty winds, hail, and lightning strikes, were expected to affect the northeastern and eastern parts of the country first, before spreading to other regions.