mommysboy

53 minutes ago, Barnet1900 said:

Thank you.

 

Makes perfect sense. As sad as it is to accept. I think you're right when you say that we can't stop the increase in temperature.

 

I just wonder that should a time come where we are faced with day after day of going to shopping malls and such, just to stay cool, if a large volume of tourists and expats call it a day here. Nearly everyone I speak to stays in during the daytime to avoid the blistering heat. It's only my humble opinion but I do believe that eventually nature will dramatically change the way we live. 

I speak often with a friend in Dubai, where they are shifting into summer mode. About now, the air temperature becomes comparable with Thailand. It's already considered too hot to do much.  Modern apartments have centrally controlled air con in all rooms 24 hours a day, as do most other public buildings. He's stopped his evening walk- too hot he says. Even now he doesn't spend much if anytime outside on work days and of course his car is also cooled.  Yes, shopping malls, cinemas, swimming pools are the places to be.  My friend comes from Southern India so he's used to hot and humid weather.  Although he likes Thailand, he says that he wouldn't come this time of the year because of the heat and humidity.  It's a snapshot of how city dwellers will be living in Thailand at least during the dry season imo. 

Wouldn't you have been aware of a snake bite?

If you want a horse to work you have to at least feed it. 

Poor peoples RPI index has increased much more than others.

Some times I think many businesses exist because of wage theft. 

If they can't/won't pay then probably we're looking at zombie businesses, which are terrible for the economy.

The taxpayer ends up paying for sXXX wages.

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

The battery has passed its real world tests with flying colors. That's why a 765 million dollar plant is now in the final phase of construction.  This is a company who chief executive was in charge of battery development at Tesla. And it is not incumbent upon me to educate you. Why should I take hours or even days to paraphrase what is already on offer?  I offered you a link to a thorough explanation of how their conclusions were arrived at.  The simple takeaway is this: an M.I.T. study determined that to get to 100% renewables it would take a battery that costs $20 per kwh of capacity. To get to 95% renewables it would take a battery that costs $151 per kwh of capacity. At the time that article was written, even getting to $151 was considered to be improbable before the year 2030. Not only do lithium batteries now cost less than that, but at least one company has reached the $20 mark.

 

Initially, wind power was also considered unviable, but in the UK at least it is a major source of cheap power.

There is no doubt some other green energies will work.

(Sadly it is already too late to prevent catastrophic changes to the eco system. I'm not predicting the imminent demise of mankind, but I do think the next 100 years are going to be very tough for the human race, perhaps the excess death rate will be of biblical proportions albeit in slow motion.)

12 hours ago, DavisH said:

I looked at the wunderground.com records for April. I only went back 15 years, but April 2024 had an average temperature 2-3 degrees higher than any of those previous years - at around 33+C (this was for Don Muang area). I don't recall in my 24 years here of weeks on end of 38-40 highs. 

That certainly corresponds with my experience.

Just wait: there will be some deluded characters that will swear that black is white and white no colour at all.

8 hours ago, BigBruv said:

 

"Thailand's NVI Backs AstraZeneca Amid Controversy":    Well they would wouldn't they?

Possibly scared of the legal repercussions

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/26/bbc-presenter-lisa-shaw-died-of-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-complications-coroner-finds

"Karen Dilks, the senior coroner for Newcastle, gave a narrative conclusion. “Lisa died due to complications of an AstraZeneca Covid vaccine,” she said.

Shaw, who was referred to by her married name, Lisa Eve, during the hearing, started complaining of headaches a few days after her vaccination. She eventually visited a hospital A&E department in Durham, where she was diagnosed with a blood clot.

She was transferred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary where she received a number of treatments, including cutting away part of her skull to relieve the pressure on her brain, but despite those efforts she died on 21 May."

 

But yep, otherwise "safe & effective'", "saved trillions of lives" etc from the 'pandemic' that seemed to end the moment the Ukraine war started.

 

Nothing is 100% safe.  If we used that argument just about everything would carry a warning or be banned. It's really tragic and people did die that's for sure. It's equally true that tens of thousands of lives were saved in the UK alone.  What was the alternative at the time? Permanent lockdown? Let nature take its course? Both would have led to millions of lives being lost.  Remember the virus was far more dangerous than the present mutation.

1 minute ago, mogandave said:

Do your part and turn off your air conditioner and quit driving.

 

 

This is something that can only be achieved on a societal level, and enacted by governments.

Nobody wants it, but it has to happen.

Just one person doing it is pointless self-sacrifice.

Regarding stopping fossil fuels: it's not an economic decision, but an existential one.  Emissions need to be drastically cut. If we do it now, perhaps life will be livable in 50 years time, if we don't well it doesn't bear thinking about.

Obviously not for kids or other non smokers.

Nicotine vapes are relatively harmless though, unless other chemicals are introduced, usually THC.  

Ban them because they are undesirable, because nicotine is addictive, because most people simply don't like them, but stop exaggerating health risks, which are confined to rare reactions that apply to all products , especially when misused.

Great for hardened smokers - saves lives, and eases the burden on hospitals.

1 hour ago, nikmar said:

 

 

I agree - but that would put an end to a good moneyspinner for the teachers. 

If there is money being made it won't get to teachers who would much rather be on well earned vacation.  It's a relatively poorly paid and stressful occupation.

47 minutes ago, Robert Paulson said:

Cry harder 

Will do, little one!

On 5/3/2024 at 9:55 PM, Robert Paulson said:

Omg somebody said it. The truth. Watch out everyone. It’s sharp. It hurts. It may infect you. Stay away from it! 

Nobody can argue with the fact that Thailand is hot in April, of course.

But the heat index in the evenings?  And are the reported figures relevant to city dwellers?  Most people live in large conurbations these days. Up north, in the sticks, well I guess I can understand why folk are left scratching their heads- it's always blisteringly hot.  

Air temperature has been considerably hotter night and day in Surat City for around 1 month. 40 degrees is a rarity down here, and yet it happened multiple times last month.  Cities seem to retain the heat in the evening.  Yesterday, the weather was very slightly cooler, and for me it made a heck of a difference.

Personally, I am getting used to it, but adjustment was a bit of a shock to the system. 

If it's a matter of survival, the options are: return to UK, move to Flip, tighten belt, supplement income somehow.

If life is truly tough somehow we must make the best of it, which may simply be recognizing we jumped the wrong way and have to face the consequences with equanimity- tough ask I know.

We are not getting pension upgrades in Thailand- end of.

Sad to say, the changes that the world leaders struggle, but fail, to achieve are simply too little too late. I guess nature will have it's way. 

For the average older Brit/American, etc, who doesn't have to be here, the best advice would be go home. Doubly quick if you are not very healthy, or not backed by truly substantial assets.

If you can't go home, don't just get fit- get very very fit. 

The weather maps show around mid 30's for Pattaya by day.  It doesn't seem to be that hot. Maybe this time of the year the sun is blisteringly hot. Plus, the evening heat appears to be very challenging.

Surat City hit 40 yesterday- that's hot! Even hotter in many other places.

Looking at the weather records, it seems to me that the evenings must be particularly uncomfortable.  In a building it could be 33 or more up to midnight with high humidity too.

Of an evening, a sensible strategy could be to wander the streets in tight fitting swimming briefs, perhaps in bright lemon, or shock pink.  Could make some interesting new friends too.

I think, on the other hand, it's probably best to visit a well cooled den of ill repute and stay there all night.

Nice weather for it too!

I think it highly likely the Brit was scammed based on the location- absolutely notorious, as others have also mentioned. I think there will only be one result in court though.

7 minutes ago, BigBruv said:

 

Your 'covid' 'vaccines' went from:

 

100% effective - you won't catch covid if you get a vaccine

to 

You need a regular booster every 3 months or covid could still kill you to

to 

they might help

to

AstraZeneca admits its Covid vaccine can cause rare blood clots

 

If you have any pattern recognition ability (doubtful) you'll be able to predict what the reports next year will be.

 

BTW, are you saying up to date with your boosters?

 

If not, was it the Ukraine war (another big money laundering opp/grift) which killed off covid?

 

As the virus mutates so the vaccine needs to be updated.  When an updated virus tackles the mutation it was designed for, immunity is near 100%. Make no mistake, all the western vaccines provided very high protection from serious illness and death in older age groups.

Sadly young people were most at risk of TTS, but as we know now were the least likely to die from Covid. It's debatable whether they even needed a vaccine. Still, it's easy to be wise after the event. The AZ jab saved countless old lives. TTS is a very rare reaction to so called vector vaccines. Overall, the AZ vaccine was as safe/dangerous as any of them.

18 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I really think that today, at least near my house, has been the hottest this year.

 

It was so hot that when I went outside to open the front gate, to take out the garbage,

 

I used oven mitts to hold the  padlock.

 

(Electric bill will go from Bt.3600, last month, to Bt.6000 PLUS, this month.  And, neither hide nor hair of the Soi Dogs have I seen, these days. (hope they are staying cool, and are well-watered, and well-fed.)

 

 

 

 

According to some on this forum, the padlock feels hot but actually isn't.  Yes, I haven't seen many dogs around lately.

2 minutes ago, NotEinstein said:

It obviously is hot, 40.6C today - hottest I have recorded, but not out of the norm for April/May. The same conversations will be had next year......

Dodging the question! A career in politics beckons. lol.

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

If you guys constantly fixate on the weather, you're going to feel miserable.

Personally, I'm making a point of carrying on as normal, including at least half an hour out in the sun every day. Normal for me means exercising every day, and at least 2 sessions in the gym a week. I'm living it. I do find it difficult sitting in the heat for hours on end though, but air con is a double edged sword, best limited to an afternoon nap and overnight.  I do envy the idle rich.  

Just curious about the attitude of some that's all!  

54 minutes ago, NotEinstein said:

The relative humidity always goes up after sundown because the air temperature drops and consequently its ability to hold water vapour reduces, causing more moisture. Our bodies are very inefficient at remembering such things. Every summer 'feels' hotter, when the reality says otherwise. If the weather men of the past had calculated and reported the heat index, it probably wouldn't have been any different from now.

 

If the current ice-age cycle goes to its normal end, with the poles then becoming ice-free, a lot of that water will be air-bound, probably putting paid to most of mammalian life - humans for sure.

So what's your angle regarding the hot spell in Thailand. From my angle, you seem to be saying it's not happening, or perhaps that it feels hot, but is not a physiological fact.

29 minutes ago, NotEinstein said:

Yes, I know humidity has a major effect on how we humans feel and are endangered when it comes to higher temperatures.

If I had a wet bulb thermometer system I would add that, but I don't. The humidity monitor I had failed after a couple of years.

From occasional observation I would say that the humidity hasn't changed much year on year, it going up during the evening, and with rain obviously having the biggest impact. 31% in my house now.

The heat index even in Surat Thani is 48, with an air temperature of 39.  

Up country and in many other parts I think the heat index could be as much as 54.

I've recently started taking some readings. Interestingly during the day my readings tally almost exactly with weather reports, but are up to 5 degrees warmer after 6pm and throughout the evening.  I think it's what is happening in the evenings, especially in urban areas that is probably contributing to heat tiredness, and the very real sense that there is a heatwave.