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I live in a small resort with a water tank and small building to catch rainwater and we didn't needed water trucks in the last 4 years as far as I know ... I'm pretty sure the owner would have charged me for that and told me. Before I lived in fischermans village for 3 years and we needed it once, usually the water coming from a well on site. From my impression, and that is not proven by any facts, it is raining a lot recently. There was quite a strong short shower on Saturday ... I understand that the weather is often quite local but I would have assumed that it will even out over time, more or less, but might be wrong? I also can't say how the average rainfall over the years was but it also feels more for me. I might be completely wrong. I was on the weekend in Lamai in a run down cheap resort and there was no sign of water shortage. The weekend before i was in a different Hotel, same. Might it be - on top of the real shortage - that some are prepared and some not?

https://www.advice.co.th/ I bought there a Laptop (during covid when it was not that easy to get what I wanted) and several times smaller stuff: always good, decent priced and fast delivery. Maybe worth a shot ... but I really wonder that none of the others have the right computer for you ...

The point is: look at the link and the daily or even hourly values. Do you really think that the AQI is nearly all the time the same? Of course it isn't. Who ever operates the page or provides the data for Samui is doing something wrong. It is not the first time this site was posted here and again it is not usable. Compare to other sites and you will find pretty quick that the values are changing most of the time depending on many factors. Being stable at one value is nearly impossible for Samui.

Please stop posting this link, it is not working at all. It shows always the same values. 51/50 since weeks, nice. Or is it me and I'm doing something wrong? I don't think so, just tried another browser. Compare this with other pages, it is a no-brainer that this page is broken or the sensor is hidden in a compartment with always the same air quality. Maybe it works for other cities, but not for Samui.

Here is one montior i DON'T recommend, not working at all for me. I have it in my kitchen and even when I cook something there is no change while my air purifier detects the bad air and spins up. lazada.co.th/products/i4155851447-s16316882857.html So it is basically a 1000 baht clock for me ... Be careful, the other one posted @phetphet are sometimes in the same listing and you might end up with a <deleted>ty one.

I can't read this at all from the OP and I commented on THIS post. I told on MY experience and that I agree that a dedicated monitor is maybe not what you want. When I was in KL the AQI was 322, that was not a joke at all. I had to leave KL because I couldn't breath anymore and felt constantly pepper sprayed. Since I know the feeling I can compare it with Samui last year, which was btw the first time I had problems here - after over 10 years.

Well, If you have problems with the air quality it is not senseless and not everyone is "mainly in open air". People are different and you spend usually a third of you day inside your bedroom. Waking up without a cloudy head is great. I can't comment on if the view is normal or not, might be. Fact is that the AQI was really bad last year around this time and for sensitive people an air purifier might be a good solution. A decade ago I lived in KL where it was much worse (also from burning trees plus the usual city pollution) and I know the symptoms quite well. Last year I had the same problems - albeit less severe - on Samui and that was when I decided to buy one and I don't regret it, it helped ME a lot. If you don't have any problems at all you probably don't need one, good for you.

I agree, just get a smart air purifier and you can monitor it. I bought a "Mi Air Purifier 4 Lite" which you can monitor and control via phone app and monitor it even via linux and do whatever you want with the data. When it got serious last year I also got another device to monitor the quality, but it is not working at all, even after converting the units. But hey, nice display. Since these are quite expensive and I can get the values from the other device I stopped searching. Right now it might not be the best air quality but compared to last year it is fine for me. And yes, the purifier works great for me. Filter is now at (calculated) 48% and I run the device usually automatically when the AQI is above 15 and down to 5. That is quite low and I changed it recently to 20 to 5. Also I run it one hour in the morning before I usually wake up. So a filter replacement will hot happen that often, I got it nearly exactly a year ago. ... just if you fear the costs. But my bedroom is really small, your mileage may vary ...

No, it was not good on Samui, the page is saying that - nothing else. The page you are looking at is not showing correct values in my opinion. Other services are showing much higher values, even now but the page you are referring too is still showing 52. A good indicator is the little change over the hours or even days, strange that it is always around 50, +/- 2. That looks completely different on other pages, who knows what they are measuring or if the data is correct at all. Maybe the values are correct for KP, but definitely not for Samui. Other pages, my eyes and my air purifier confirming that. I would not recommend to use the page for Samui.

No, yesterday it was not ok, it seems the monitor and the history on this page are not working correctly. Look at the history of both stations, they barely change at all. If you look at the timeline you see that this was much worse before 09:00, when the rain started ... 2nd: on the iqair page there are 3 monitors pm Samui and in the morning one was also quite lower (Lamai) but not as low as the other page. You always have to read the data with a grain of salt but I'm pretty sure it was not around 50 yesterday or before the rain.

If you have problems outside: I can recommend to wear a mask (N95) ... Yes, masks help also against air pollution, and they will not make your dick smaller. I was living in Malaysia some years ago with much higher PM2.5 values and it was common to wear masks when Indonesia burned palm trees again. Maybe the pollution is for some still not high enough to go through that again ... While I feel the beginning of the symptoms, that is nothing compared to a value over 300 where I had really bad headaches, and my eyes and mouth felt like someone pepper sprayed them - all the time. Anyway, when it started 2 months ago on Samui I bough a rather cheap (3200 baht Lazada) air purifier for my bedroom and it helps me a lot. I set it so it operates even at normally ok values and let it also run at night for 2 hours before my regular wake up time. I feel much better in the morning. Since a few days I decreased the turn-on threshold because I was feeling worse again and it runs quite often during the day, which is an indicator that the air is polluted. The device acts quite fast, when I fry something in the kitchen it takes just a few minutes to recognize it, same with the wild fires in the neighborhood which I sometimes only smell when I go outside. So, if you have problems: both masks and filters work for me.

I asked today if the doctor is available every day and the nurse said yes. Maybe he is there only until noon, I don't know. So far I was lucky and always met him when I showed up without an appointment. But all this doesn't matter. If you know that you need an cardiologist, my recommendation is to go directly to BKK hospital if you don't want to pay twice. Sure there are some problems that a non specialist can look at but if you already know this will not help save your time and money. Emergency issues are something else, I expect that every hospital can help.

Yes. I was there after and they had one on site. The same I had last year and the same I have another appointment tomorrow with. On his door it says cardiology with his name on it. I guess he is a cardiologist. The intention of my post was to tell other people what they can't do because I got this information first hand. This might be useful for other people and prevent them to go there with this kind of problems, especially when it is urgent. I went there today because of your post and turned out they couldn't help me. Happens, I didn't demanded/expected that every hospital can do everything, actually I was last year first at Thai International for my chest pain and they send me to BKK Hospital because they have a cardiologist.

I just went there and to prevent others to go there with heart problems: they don't have a cardiologist.

I was driving around the island today and saw plenty of motorbikes to rent in front of the shops early afternoon. That was different a few weeks ago so it seems to me that it is getting back to normal again and it should not be a problem to get one. But I didn't tried to get one, just what I saw and assume.