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The evaporation varies from 2 mm/day on a cloudy day to 6 mm/day on a sunny day with wind. Source meteoblue.com.

Since a few days I can't reach Thaivisa and the forums.

Now I can only reach them when I use VPN so it looks like I am in a foreign country.

Is this my problem only; is my computer at fault? Or is it something else?

On 4/3/2021 at 4:48 AM, BritTim said:

Each country needs to decide on its priorities. Panama has had about 1,400 deaths from Covid-19 per million population. A similar death toll in Thailand would mean almost 100,000 deaths instead of the current 94. I personally agree that saving almost 100,000 lives of your citizens is worth restrictions on tourism. Others might have a different sense of the priorities.

Thailand has 16 times as many people as Panama. 16 times 1400 is about 22000 deaths. Don't exagerate!

 Taweesak Thanadechopol makes a tiny mistake. It is El Nino that enhances rain in South America and diminishes rain in SE Asia. La Nina does the opposite, so more rain than average in Thailand. Another mistake: at the moment the situation in the Pacific is Nino-neutral and it is expected to stay this way the rest of the year.

This has nothing to do with typhoon Kammuri. At the time of the heavy rain in Narathiwat the typhoon was far east of the Philippines, at that moment not even affecting the weather in the Philippines. The heavy rain is a normal occurrence at the Thai east coast in their rainy season (October to January), also called the NE monsoon.

In most years it is more rainy than this year.

Chalong received 124 mm of rain.

http://www.ukho.gov.uk/easytide/EasyTide/ShowPrediction.aspx?PortID=4640&PredictionLength=7

This for the tide in Ao Nang but you can change to the desired location in the header,

I have a solar power installation with back-up batteries. The available solar radiation in Thailand is about 5 kWh per day per square meter. The efficiency of the solar panels is not much more than 10%, so you can rely on 0,5 kWh per day per square meter of solar panels.

So you must calculate how much electricty your pumps will be using per day (in kWh) and then multiply by 2 to find the needed area of solar panels.

Protect the installation from lightning strikes.

DEET really helps.

I think that immigration rules have not changed. What has changed is the policy change of some countries that refuse to give a certified income statement.

Is this the same Met Office that issued a warning for summer storms in Phuket a few weeks ago?

1 hour ago, seahorse said:

No mention of what Naga refers to. 

It is named after Naga mountain that towers over Khlong Muang. There is a nice and easy mountain trail going to the top at 500 m altitude. Many festival attendants make that trip to enjoy the magnificent view. Naga (pronounce Naak) is some sea goddess.

Try the South. It is not polluted except parts of Phuket. You don't need totravel far south: Pracuap Khiri Khan is OK already. Avoid the far south of course.

"and may make parents spend more on expensive clothes"

You want spend the money on uniforms? Don't forget: the pupils must buy a good deal of uniforms for different occasions. This is a real burden for poor parents and A BIG BOON for school masters who get their share of the uniform sellers.

Chian Yai in Nakhon Si Thammarat had 290 mm in one day.

Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat reported 215 mm of rain from 20 NOV 7 AM to 21 NOV 7 AM.

34 minutes ago, Thian said:

Right, can you show me a website where they explain how frost/rhyme/hoarscope can happen on grass when the airtemp is 1 celcius?

 

The dutch websites all explain it when the temp is under zero and that i understand. I don';t understand how grass can get below zero when the air around it is 1 celcius.

 

 

I try to explain again: At night the earth cools by outgoing (infrared) radiation. That goes for the earth surface and also by objects like plants and cars. The atmosphere cools only a little bit by this outgoing radiation. The air cools most by contact with the cold earth surface and the objects. That is why the air at a clear night with little wind is coldest near the surface. The air at 1,5 m altitude, where the air temperature is measured, is warmer than the surface. So it is fairly common to see air temperatures a few degrees above zero while your car windows are covered with rime.

17 hours ago, wirat69 said:

My transliteration handbook cites "kai" as an egg.... and "gai" as a chicken..... not sure which came first, kai or gai.... but ThaiVisa once agains gets the basic spelling incorrect.....

The spelling "kai" is better than "gai" because the hard "g" sound does not exist in the Thai language. You just have to remember that the "k" in many languages is unaspirated (all Romanic languages and Dutch). If you want the aspirated version like the word for "egg" you just add "h".

k is not aspirated and kh is aspirated. Not difficult to remember, I guess. The same goes for t and th and for p and ph.

Transliteration to English writing is difficult as the English spelling is even inadequate for the English language too.

The embassy of the Netherlands used to give the income letter without checking. This has changed and they actually verify your income. If the Netherlands' embassy can check this, why can't the UK embassy do likewise?

Trami has nothing to do with it. Trami is far away in the NW Pacific, more than 3000 km from Bangkok. It will pass north of Taiwan on 30 September and Thailand will not be influenced at all. Who makes up this nonsense?

I bought a Vivo last year, 9000 Baht. I was pleased with it and I advised my friend to buy one too. He is also happy with his Vivo.