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@   ExpatOilWorker

How do you actually live through numbers that high, stay indoor next to an air purifier?

I must be so bad you can clearly smell the burning, right?

Hate to be indoors, but it seems to be better these days. At least some time.

I'm only here for family reasons.

I am particularly sorry for the children. - What a shame.
Many people cannot see the problem at all.
And many do not have the means to buy air purifiers etc. 

The particulate matter doesn't smell most of the time,

unless it comes from burning wood, plastic ...

You might find some info there:

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1143398-phrae-pm25-numbers-2020/

Jan 26

Usually you don't smell it,

if you see it, it might be haze, mist, early morning fog.

But it is dust. Today a lot of it in our area...

Would be interesting to know when the powerplant starts working.

This is Phrae - aqicn.org

Only unhealthy now, this morning it was a bit higher:

Phrae today   09:19                        10:28

2 hours ago, seb2015 said:

So it looks like we're getting a nice break from the burnings over the weekend, thanks to the Chinese new year.

On the other hand , news from the virus outbreak in Wuhan sound very alarming.

Break.  -  I think it might be the western winds?

Up North its bad at night and most of the day, becomes better only in the afternoon.

You might have a look at the ChiamgRai-Forum.

Jan 25-II

Interesting read from Worasom Kundhikanjana:

https://towardsdatascience.com/identifying-the-sources-of-winter-air-pollution-in-bangkok-part-i-d4392ea608dc -   7 min / Part I

https://towardsdatascience.com/identifying-the-sources-of-winter-air-pollution-in-bangkok-part-ii-72539f9b767a -   9 min / Part II

" Conclusion

The PM 2.5 level has a complex relationship with various factors: number of fires, weather patterns, and traffic. But this analysis confirms the suspicion that many people have — agricultural burning is the root cause of PM 2.5 pollution in Thailand. Burning activities as far as 720 km away from Bangkok, an area which extends into Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia, can cause air problems in Bangkok. Solving this problem will not be easy. It will require a collaborative international effort among the Southeast Asian countries. "

Thanks to 'seb2015' posting the links in

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1142080-bangkok-air-pollution-2020/

Jan 25

Saturday 

(airvisual.com)

This morning inside  09:19         Outside  10:28              (private)

One of the pics above seems not correct?

The Western Winds?

Phrae  367  25.1.  09:00

  Lampang 188  25.1. 09:00    (aqicn.org)

(firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov)

25.1. 11:00  Phrae Valley          Phrae in the middle

@ FlorC

Please, have a look at the windy-screenshots from above.

It's only a question of some hours till the dust comes back.

' powering my aircon and airpurifier ... '  -  Air purifier needs about 30 watt.

These days there is no need for AC !?

But, of course, where does electricity comes from?

Thailand has so much sun, 10 or more hours a day, but they don't prefer

photovoltaic, they don't prefer wind-energy.

They stay with this extremely dirty lignite-coal-thing.

Interesting facts here:    dirty_30_report_finale.pdf -  http://www.wwf.eu/?uNewsID=225651

And some more info here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Germany

I'm not sure, but I remember the renewable energies are contributing

in Germany already more than 40 % to the energy needs.

@thequietman

Thanks, but airvisual.com today (9:00/10:00) was completely wrong. Timing mistake?

In this area the real numbers were around 250 - 270.

(I'm watching it very carefully.)

Jan 24-II

The center - Mae Moh - could be a part of today's local air pollution :

11:00  aqicn.org

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) has drawn up a plan to shut down the Mae Moh coal mine in Lampang province ...

( Units 8 to 9 will retire in 2025 - Units 10 to 13 will be decommissioned after 2025 )

https://www.nationthailand.com/business/30377770

... The Mae Moh power plant has a total capacity of 2,400MW. The new units, which were built or will be built to replace the retired ones, will be decommissioned at the same time the mine runs out of supply.

So Mae Moh doesn't shut down because of the air pollution,

they will - perhaps - shut down, because

... the mine’s lifespan will end in the next 30 years.

Good to hear. - Only 30 more years...

Btw, the wind blew it away...

Outside at 13.45 'only' 90 - 100.

windy.com  14:00

3 hours ago, sceadugenga said:

Sorry, I thought you said you had posted it in the wrong thread.

You are right, it was misleading. Sorry.
Didn't want to write about dust so often ...

Jan 24

 Bedroom      Outside  8:00

Outside  11:00 still 250 - 270 mcg/m^3

  9:00  PM2.5 Phrae  278 

aqicn.org

  10:00  Phrae  265

[airvisual.com shows 167 for Phrae - I think this is not correct]

  windy.com 

The North                                    Bangkok Area
 

Jan 23-I had been deleted  -  Excuse me, why?

Jan 23-II

'Some Feet High And Rising'

Intended was a song J. Cash has sung some years ago, concerning flooding.

Flooding in Thailand might return?

Same as the growing pollution?

It's like being between Scylla and Charybdis...

PM2.5 in Phrae went up today until 187 mcg/m^3.

In the late afternoon down to 107. Reason might be the western winds.

Would be nice if ...

Jan 23

Sorry, wrong thread.

Today 11:00  PM2.5 Phrae  187

If you like trees, so why don’t plant some on a smaller part (25m x 25m) of your 2 Rai?
This might be your beautiful garden or plot of land to build a small house in the future.

I love trees. - If you think ‘earning some money’ in the next 20 or 30 years: no chance.
It will only cost you a lot of money and a lot of work. From the beginning.

Why not continue planting rice? – Your family members might take care of this too (!?)
and you will  get rice from your own land.
Perhaps 5 bags for you and 20 bags for the working family…
Don’t know what’s common in Isan.

Good luck.

No, it's not  ' a silly complaint '.

I think it can actually be torture.

So, good luck for you and the resort in the future.

Jan 22

Go South. - Malaysia, Borneo/Brunei/Kalimantan, Australia ...

   airvisual.com

aqicn.org                                            berkeleyearth.org

It's really bad all over Thailand.

aqicn.org  Jan 21 - 21/22:00

Useful or not. - But, what about the people in the north?

It is bad all over Thailand, almost all over SEA.

Jan 21

I see no improvement .

But, might be worse?

So better, keep on dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeEs6e0FdwU

Jan 20

Same, same. It's getting boring.

Link to'BKKAirPollution' 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1142080-bangkok-air-pollution-2020/page/10/#comments

Good tool thanks

TallGuyJohninBKK:

https://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.calculator

Jan 19

Phrae Sunday 12:00   171

and a smoggy link:

MiKT,

Hello, @ saengd,

I remember, particulate matter is a bit difficult to calculate...

One might find a lot of information here:

https://www.epa.gov/report-environment

Readings? - This might have been a bad representation or just a mistake.

I don't know.

But we all know, it's smoggy outside. Not everywhere, but almost everywhere in Thailand.

More or less.

And I don't understand what  Dante99

_{was writing. Just have a look at the actual screenshots.}

http://aqicn.org/here/

airvisual.com

Jan 18

Good slogan: ' At best this is surviving not living  '

Thanks, URMySunshine.

It seems to be bad everywhere, from India to China,

some places worse. For example Lampoon,

again more than 200 mcg/m^3, Mae Hong Son > 300.

Now, just routine:  Phrae 173.

And here the pictures of the day - airvisual.com:

You might already feel much better?

Otherwise I would strongly suggest visiting -with your wife- a hospital nearby.

Sounds like Dengue to me.

The local doctors should treat you

(well).

[One tablet of medical coal should

help a bit.]

Indeed big.

Years ago I noticed a correlation with smog in Phrae and the Lampang area.
The air in Phrae very often deteriorated in the early evening, ‘when the darkness
fell over the land’.
The surrounding mountains and valleys seem quite natural, so where might
this pollution come from?

As the winds blew the dust from the Australian fires to Chile and Argentina,
no problem to blow the fumes from Mae Moh some hundred kilometers…

Maybe just nonsense?

Jan 17

From   https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1143715-panel-to-propose-anti-pollution-measures/

  ‘Individuals will be asked to avoid driving their personal cars to work.’

Two answers:

PM2.5   -   Same same, but different.

In Bangkok worse, around Phrae a bit better. Phra/Lampang city bad.