Chiang Mai Air Quality and Pollution

[Yom]

1 hour ago, KrishnaCameb4Buddha said:

AQI is 280 now

Sorry b4B,

you are not today's winner. 

 

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Edited March 11, 2020 by Yom

[Forza2002]

[Gonzo the Face]

W O W   ! ! !   I have never seen it so bad.  Looking out my window and down the street maybe 100 mtrs its just obvious the smoke and haze like never before and I've been here almost 30 yrs.  Gonna be big problems soon if something is not done about it.   World's worst ???  Be another new record breaking our old one soon.  Government better start thinking about the  good of the people first.  Doing something not just saying something that makes it look like you are doing something !

!

[JimmyJ]

21 hours ago, Forza2002 said:

What site is this from?

[brommers]

So today at 9:30 am the AQI in Sanpiisua is a staggering 308!

The closest main fire for some days has been 17 kms away in Doi Suthep/Pui and the smell of smoke has been evident all week. So where are the firefighters, water dropping aircraft etc? Who knows but certainly having no effect whetever they are. Thank you Mr Governor for another poisonous week.

 

[cerox]

Good job. Well done. But please, more. Need to finish on schedule.

And we started late this year. I demand 300+ daily.

[CharlieH]

Posts in violation of forum rule 1 have been removed.

[TheFishman1]

Right now air in Chiang Mai over 250

[KrishnaCameb4Buddha]

2 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

Right now air in Chiang Mai over 250

over 500 (Five Hundred) 8AM by my meter read near Kad Suan Kaew, compared to the map on aqicn.org of Chiang Mai which has ranges of 200s-300 (with an outlier of 422 on far SE corner of Chiang Mai at San Kamphaeng Hospital.  Air seen from Kad Suan Kaew area now looks like soup.

 

They are consistently under-reporting the true numbers and have been for approx two months.  LIke I said before, this never happened a few months ago.  As the day wears on and if/when the actual AQI drops to the 200 or so range, *then* aqicn.org numbers will align with my meter. 

 

Aqicn.org shows Chiang *RAI* now at 422, so I wonder what the real number is. 

 

I hope more of thaivisa readers acquire AQI meters so you can see these corrupt numbers for yourselves.

 

Edited March 13, 2020 by KrishnaCameb4Buddha

[KrishnaCameb4Buddha]

On 3/11/2020 at 8:40 AM, Yom said:

Sorry b4B,

you are not today's winner. 

 

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You are comparing apples and oranges. I posted those numbers around 7AM, and you posted 'your' numbers at 8:40AM. 

 

I guess you didn't get the memo that the numbers change as the day progresses.  Try looking at aqicn.org several times or more per day.  See the numbers?  See the numbers change?

 

That's right, the numbers can be high or 'low0 one hour, and as air currents, air pressure, sun, etc influences the pollution, then the numbers change.

 

 

Edited March 13, 2020 by KrishnaCameb4Buddha

[Trujillo]

350 on my porch.... 

Do I win? 

[brommers]

 Sorry Trujillo but here in lovely Sanpiisua it is 403 at 10:35am. 

[XGM]

Only 320 here in Sansai. Come on, it was over 400 last year. But yes, not in early March.

[Forza2002]

Another beautiful day in CNX. Having to quarantine, not due to CV-19, due to SMOG...https://www.airvisual.com/air-quality-map?

 

Edited March 13, 2020 by Forza2002

[Ventenio]

you live in a health war zone, you had many months to leave; however, you stayed and then suffer.  you don't get a medal for being a complete idiot and putting your health in such danger because of laziness or lack of being prepared.  i'm 100% sure the damage is immediate mentally, and physically it will take it's toll and wreck havoc for decades.  

 

it's sooo cheap to leave.   could be on a bus tonight and spend 3 weeks somewhere else for maybe 30,000 or something.  but, oh no, suffering is better.  

 

listen to the voice of reason.  you are in shark-infested water and you are screaming like a baby, "mommy, i like to swim, let me stay." 

[Trujillo]

Some people have obligations here in CM, such as work and family. 

It's not about the cost to get away. 

 

 

[cardinalblue]

“Gonna be big problems here soon?”
 

Really? Like what?

there is no plan to reduce air pollution...they have no will nor desire to change the behavior of the people...

 

they must be putting all their resources toward the virus...

 

50+ cases and 5 deaths? Glad the gov is telling us the real numbers....

 

a brochure should be handed out to every tourist (all 10 of them now) about the health effects of northern air pollution...

 

a national embarrassment but too ashamed to address it...

 

 

[Isaanbiker]

On 11/12/2019 at 9:52 AM, villagefarang said:

Really bad up here in the mountains.????

 

Why are you NOT standing on the rock? 

[mike787]

Ok, here we go, every year about this topic...if all this matters more than idle narrative BS, let's start a Gofund and educatee to stop this pollution....talk is cheap because it exceeds the demand...

[cerox]

I am really happy now. Sitting here with zero air pollution where I am now, seeing that they finally started burning. This is the way it is supposed to be - above 300 everywhere. Well done. Keep up the good work.

[KrishnaCameb4Buddha]

AQI 700 outside my window near Kad Suan Kaew at 7:30AM, Sun, Mar 15, 2020, *not* the 270-400 ranges aqicn.org is claiming now in their 'real-time' website.  It appears their numbers have been 'corrupted'.

 

Can Pakistan or India or China beat this 700 AQI ?

Edited March 15, 2020 by KrishnaCameb4Buddha

[KrishnaCameb4Buddha]

17 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

Why are you NOT standing on the rock? 

wouldn't it be wonderful if a picture is what scientists used to judge the AQI.  "Hey, we don't need AQI meters anymore, let's just look around and pretend to 'see' the PM2.5s (2.5 millionioths of a meter across)."

 

Get an AQI  meter, push the 'On' button wherever you are in Thailand, take a picture of the reading, and try posting *that*.  

 

Air pollution will be less in the 'mountains', but it ain't gonna be clean air (in Thailand).  

 

If anyone can screw up the air quality in the 'mountains', the Thais can with their burning 'season'.

[Forza2002]

More than a dozen fires alight in the foothills surrounding Chiang Mai. This is a local problem, SMOG not wholly attributable to neighboring countries as the govt. would lead us to believe..https://www.airvisual.com/air-quality-map?lat=18.7446293&lng=99.0861594&zoomLevel=15

[JimmyJ]

20 hours ago, cardinalblue said:

“Gonna be big problems here soon?”
 

Really? Like what?

there is no plan to reduce air pollution...they have no will nor desire to change the behavior of the people...

 

they must be putting all their resources toward the virus...

 

50+ cases and 5 deaths? Glad the gov is telling us the real numbers....

 

a brochure should be handed out to every tourist (all 10 of them now) about the health effects of northern air pollution...

 

a national embarrassment but too ashamed to address it...

 

 

"a brochure should be handed out to every tourist (all 10 of them now) about the health effects of northern air pollution..."

 

Posting to Triadvisor.com and other travel forums will get the word out to many.

[elephant45]

sounds like nice holiday weather, 700aqi and 40+c temp

[cerox]

There is still some red and too much purple now. Yesterday you were better. Is that all you can do? Disappointing.

[Rasseru]

<very glad to have escaped Chiangmai and to be breathing clean air in Koh Samui>

[Rasseru]

The AQI in Koh Samui earlier today was 21.

[SometimezaGreatNotion]

I'm wondering if I should change my return flight to Chiang Mai (current ticket is to return on March 31) to stay another month here in Krabi (where AQI has been 20 to 50, averages less than 30). Is there any data from the past that predicts when AQI in Chiang Mai will drop below 100?

[cerox]

Cant help you with "charts" - there are other experts for that here. But I can tell you from experience that I never return before the end of April for a good reason. Air will be very similar in April until the rain starts.

If you can, wait until mid May.