It’s unusually humid, isn’t it?

[Jajazazajaja]

I’ve been here for many years any can’t remember it being quite so draining at night with the humidity

 

or am I just getting old?

[Isaanbiker]

Nope, you're not alone! My wife, son and I are also suffering and it's causing a headache and a strange feeling. It's terrible weather with temperatures up to 42 degrees that feel like 55! 

[Jajazazajaja]

I don’t remember ever feeling quite so uncomfortable. This is no good at all 70% humidity! 

[Puchaiyank]

Humidity is up...humility is down!  I feel for the folks who will be exposed to this dangerous heat and humidity for hours at the time for the next few days to give the new King his proper coronation...

 

Hopefully plenty of bottled water and medical staff will be available...

[sunnyboy2018]

Yep. For the first time in 3 years I am using AC...at night. Also jogging has to be done after 7pm. Condo swimming pool essential...

[BobbyL]

3 hours ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

Yep. For the first time in 3 years I am using AC...at night. 

Exactly the same. 

[smutcakes]

6 hours ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

Yep. For the first time in 3 years I am using AC...at night. Also jogging has to be done after 7pm. Condo swimming pool essential...

Despite the temperatures being higher i am thinking an 7 or 8am jogging time about optimal. I went out at 3am the other morning around central BKK and the temp with the extremely high humidity at that time was a killer.  At 7am the humidity has dropped and temperature only starting to ratchet up. I like to normally do about 20km before work, at the moment in the mornings i am lucky to get to 12-15 without feeling dizzy and unwell. I have decided to keep it in the gym until we have some decent rains.

[Dnyy]

6 minutes ago, smutcakes said:

Despite the temperatures being higher i am thinking an 7 or 8am jogging time about optimal. I went out at 3am the other morning around central BKK and the temp with the extremely high humidity at that time was a killer.  At 7am the humidity has dropped and temperature only starting to ratchet up. I like to normally do about 20km before work, at the moment in the mornings i am lucky to get to 12-15 without feeling dizzy and unwell. I have decided to keep it in the gym until we have some decent rains.

Yea me too. Normally running a Marathon before work and all I can do now is 30k.

[Jajazazajaja]

Yeah, just went for a wander around my Soi. It’s humid as shit. 

 

Heat index is 44 degrees, apparently 

[dotpoom]

I'm reminded of when I lived back home....  Most conversations began with... Talking about the weather.

Edited May 3, 2019 by dotpoom

[Jane Dough]

I've been here the best part of four decades. This is one of the hottest, humid and most prolonged hot spells I can every remember. 

 

Fortunately I am not getting old. Mrs R told me last night.

 

Rooster

[marin]

3 hours ago, Dnyy said:

Yea me too. Normally running a Marathon before work and all I can do now is 30k.

I would bet in reality you would be breathless walking up one flight of stairs in January's cool season.  Some of us do jog on a daily basis for our health..

[mauGR1]

20 minutes ago, dotpoom said:

I'm reminded of when I lived back home....  Most conversations began with... Talking about the weather.

That's a good sign, it means no really bad news to talk about

.. But, after 15 Songkran in Thailand, this year is definitely the hotter.

[thaikahuna]

Been here 14 years and do not recall the weather ever being this brutal for so long.

[ChrisKC]

It's definitely hotter and more humid this year than the previous 16 years I have lived here.

I have almost bragged that I am one of those that can stand the heat including doing long bike rides at the hottest times of the day for many years.

I hardly ever sweated and always recovered well after my rides.

 

This year where I am in Lampang, and I know it has been very similar in most of Thailand, it has been incessantly hot and humid together with a week of high pollution as well, for at least six weeks with little rain and two weeks ago the temperature reached 44.7 and Lampang had the accolade of the hottest place in all of Thailand.

About my comfort level? I have sweated more than I have ever done anywhere and found myself being likened to a mad dog in the midday sun. Mind you, I still go out most days and I am back today from a 52kms ride up and down the mountain, sweated so much but two litres of water on my return allowed for a swift recovery.

 

I have aircon on at night but even then, I don't need a blanket over me; elsewhere in the house the heat feels extraordinary and seems to linger all night.

 

We need some decent amount of rain.

[lopburi3]

Humidity is never Arizona or desert level but actually it is the heat with normal or less humidity this year - humidity has been too low for rain (which is unusual for Thailand after Songkran) so we continue to wait at record high temps with no rain to cool it down.  

[Percy P]

16 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

Nope, you're not alone! My wife, son and I are also suffering and it's causing a headache and a strange feeling. It's terrible weather with temperatures up to 42 degrees that feel like 55! 

That's the ambient air temp sun rays hitting the skin can be 60* I Put thermometers out in the sun's rays,if it reaches 60* the bulb breaks.Try it.

 

Edited May 3, 2019 by Percy P

[Brunolem]

29 minutes ago, Percy P said:

That's the ambient air temp sun rays hitting the skin can be 60* I Put thermometers out in the sun's rays,if it reaches 60* the bulb breaks.Try it.

 

In my area in Isaan, we certainly have record heat index this year, not record temperature, but record humidity added to the temperature. 

 

From what information I can gather, it would seem that this abnormal humidity comes from the wind which, most of the time, these last few weeks, blows from the South or Southeast, which is not a normal occurence. 

 

Generally, the wind blows from the West or Southwest, and doesn't bring so much humidity over Isaan. 

 

Having said that, this is extremely unpleasant, and at a certain point, dangerous for our health if we are not careful... 

[Jane Dough]

6 hours ago, Dnyy said:

Yea me too. Normally running a Marathon before work and all I can do now is 30k.

Absolutely. I used to do tons of marathons, sometimes seven a week. 

 

Then they changed the name to Snickers.

 

Rooster

[ToddinChonburi]

Welcome to the tropical country of Thailand. Florida is much worse.  Lol

[Dnyy]

3 hours ago, marin said:

I would bet in reality you would be breathless walking up one flight of stairs in January's cool season.  Some of us do jog on a daily basis for our health..

I run too, isn't that what I said?

[GreasyFingers]

This is the same as what we called the "build up" in the northern Territory. High temperatures, high humidity waiting for the wet season to kick in.

When I worked there all of my clothes would be wet through by 9am from the perspiration. Would drink up to 2 gallons of water a day.

[greeneking]

16 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

Humidity is up...humility is down!  I feel for the folks who will be exposed to this dangerous heat and humidity for hours at the time for the next few days to give the new King his proper coronation...

 

Hopefully plenty of bottled water and medical staff will be available...

And any soldiers who do not have the 'discipline' to cope with the heat will not be punished this time.

[Dek Somboon]

Indeed, and it’s only going to get worse. (The last time we had this much CO2 in the atmosphere, temperatures were 3-4 degrees hotter and sea levels were 20m higher...)

 

So we'll either have to get used to it, or do something about it. We could for example start a Farangs For Mangroves program!????

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, GreasyFingers said:

This is the same as what we called the "build up" in the northern Territory. High temperatures, high humidity waiting for the wet season to kick in.

When I worked there all of my clothes would be wet through by 9am from the perspiration. Would drink up to 2 gallons of water a day.

Or the loony season

[emptypockets]

36 minutes ago, Dek Somboon said:

Indeed, and it’s only going to get worse. (The last time we had this much CO2 in the atmosphere, temperatures were 3-4 degrees hotter and sea levels were 20m higher...)

 

So we'll either have to get used to it, or do something about it. We could for example start a Farangs For Mangroves program!????

How long ago was that? 

[Jajazazajaja]

This is impossible. I am supposed to be playing golf tomorrow night.

[Suradit69]

18 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

Humidity is up...humility is down!  I feel for the folks who will be exposed to this dangerous heat and humidity for hours at the time for the next few days to give the new King his proper coronation...

 

Hopefully plenty of bottled water and medical staff will be available...

Might spare a thought for the farm laborers and constructions workers, er al, who spend everyday outside whatever the weather might be.

[Dek Somboon]

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

How long ago was that? 

400,000 years ago or twice as long as we’ve been around: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-relentless-rise-of-carbon-dioxide/

[PerkinsCuthbert]

11 hours ago, Dnyy said:

Yea me too. Normally running a Marathon before work and all I can do now is 30k.

Pentathlon man m'self; normally do 50km bike ride, swim 15 miles out to sea and back in the Gulf, then round it off with a 23km sprint home for breakfast before starting work at 4am.