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image.png.1de65bd7a66085816ce32daeb06df509.png Thanks to  graemeaylward and the WHO.

 

Any ‘farangs’ who do not wear face masks should be kicked out of the country, that’s according to Thailand’s health minister, Anutin Charnvirakul.

 

The minister isn't talking about air pollution, he's chattering about the virus.

[https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1147187-farangs-who-don%E2%80%99t-wear-face-masks-should-be-kicked-out-of-thailand-says-health-minister/]

What a ... .

 

Have to wait a bit, but I'd love to leave this beautiful country soon.

'I'm leaving now I'm leaving now Get out of my face Get out of my place

I'm leaving now, adios I'm leaving now '

 

 

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Welcome to Thailand.   1) Turn on a good quality air purifier with HEPA filter 2) PM2.5 indoor detector/monitor will tell you when the air quality is bad 3) Seal up your doors and

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I wish moving to the sea was an option but all the sub forums are now having the same discussions. It's 157 in Jomtien today and the air has been terrible for days. I think record warmer weather has m

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Change is taking place Yom, slowly but surely, a few years ago there was no burning ban and people couldn't care less. Today there are bans and people are starting to care, it's not perfect but it is 

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Feb 8

 

Phrae AQI 159  or  71 μg/m3  -  11:00

North - red

Chiang Mai - bad

Bangkok - a bit better

 

image.png.f0591b71328b0e26f19c72a758c08ec7.png  image.png.ae017c82523b2ca2b0df1b98aac097b3.png

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Feb 8

 

Phrae AQI 159  or  71 μg/m3  -  11:00

North - red

Chiang Mai - bad

Bangkok - a bit better

 

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I question those numbers, we live in Mae Rim and have taken measurements three times in the past 24 hours using two separate devices and all readings have been under 38, we're sat here with the doors open as I type! In fact, only yesterday my wife commented about how there has been a lack of burning this year and I agreed.

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So if you have taken measurements with two devices, then this should be correct.
I think the place where you’re living might be healthier than other places in/around ChiangMai?

The results seem very often perplexing, but I think (hope) there is no fake?
Many factors are influencing any measurements, so your numbers (37?) that means AQI 105
is not too far away from an average AQI today (in CM) before noon of 130 – 140(?).
[AQI 130 means 47 μg/m3]

http://www.aqmthai.com/public_report.php might be a tool to double check the situation.

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Feb 8-II

 

Feb 06. 2020   Strict no-burn zone measures to be implemented in North
https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1146987-strict-no-burn-zone-measures-to-be-implemented-in-north/  
and  National          

                                                                               

 

Very good!
Chiang Mai has forbidden burning from January 10 to April 30.
Phrae has announced a strict ban on burning from February 1 to April 30.

 

(late he comes, but he comes...)

 

 

Not so good - today Saturday Feb 8  2020:

 

Nan province  has banned burning from February 15 to April 15.
image.png.f52f5ba5074c4f48c3c7cc78b866d360.png

Phayao  declared absolute no-burning areas from March 1 to April 30.
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Tak  declared absolute no-burning areas from March 1 to April 30.
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Lamphun  declared absolute no-burning areas from March 1 to April 30.
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(Suanboonyopatha)

Lampang  declared absolute no-burning areas from March 1 to April 30.
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Mae Hong Son … strictly forbidding fires from March 15 to April 30.
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(MaeSariangHospital)


 

Chiang Rai  is monitoring the trend of disaster situations to issue guidelines
on no-burn zones later.
image.png.b168daf7478c234e999a8cb7ef6f63d8.png

 

 

Why not at once? - Is it not bad enough? - No visible dead people?

 

10 PM:  image.png.946a4b3dfd0798d2b2b5d3ee8b600f8a.png

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I didn't know about the following:

Korat today:  ' So many dead, so many lives ruined.  ' (djayz)

So sad. So crazy. So useless.

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Change is taking place Yom, slowly but surely, a few years ago there was no burning ban and people couldn't care less. Today there are bans and people are starting to care, it's not perfect but it is progress.

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Thanks. You're right.

* it's not perfect but it is progress *

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Feb 9

 

Phrae PM2.5 image.png.3b8ff591e64b3be0c2a4c0ff9a6141b9.png

 

image.png.f5ce8d2db4f004777880720ddbe5a620.png Thailand - PM2.5  12:00

 

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@  saengd:

 

Thanks. You're right.

* it's not perfect but it is progress *

Years ago Yom, on Thai visa Forum, there was a Swedish gentleman who was at one time a wing commander in the Swedish air-force. When he came to Thailand he started to get involved in trying to understand the pollution situation here and he started up a number of threads on the subject. At that time and I'm talking 2005 or so, there were only five pollution monitors in Chiang Mai, four fixed and one mobile, none of them could measure PM2.5 which at the time could only be calculated from the PM10 reading. As knowledgeable and intelligent as he was he refused to accept the concept of wind blown pollution from other countries, but there again neither did anyone else, people said the idea was nothing more than deflection. Now today, the idea of cross border pollution is mainstream and accepted by everyone, my how times change.

 

 

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Feb 10

 

Today is the first day we can see at least an outline of the mountains

left and right of the Yom valley. The PM2.5 concentration 20 km north

of Phrae: only 16 ug/m3   -   AQI 59.   It's a holiday.

 

Situation in Phrae seems a bit worse:  52 ug/m3   -   AQI 142

                 Much better now at 11:00   19  ug/m3   -   AQI 65                                

     Most of the North between 61 and 123 ug/m3   -   AQI 154 - 186,

     but should improve.

 

Bangkok seems better:  21 - 49 ug/m3   -   AQI 70 - 134

 

image.png.806967519209a98d4473fc487a4a7dbb.png    image.png.c146575a0068a6f39e84bcf220527c8a.png

 

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Phrae  22 ug/m3   or   AQI 72   -   I think, this is great.

After all these smoggy, grey and really unhealthy days up North.

But ...

image.png.47a69f6a4a81a13905fab2c583b13483.pngimage.png.51a2cd49b1d9754b3adfd2c5432653da.png

 

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Yom Gold Member

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Feb 11

 

Thailand North

image.png.3938353fd0c9a3fda7d2a1396175edac.png CM-Mae Hia

image.png.05c1d481d81c1d4d84c78d5f64183081.png CM-CMIS

image.png.00184c502445c3f3594e884a198ed353.png Mueang ChiangRai

image.png.1c0bf25862f24fb18d17589743e48b50.png Phayao KnowledgeP.

image.png.05af8992b82b1fd711b16ac835153d9f.png Nan-MunicipalityOff.

image.png.f7b53e9d7badb98d07ced8689189a7e5.png Lampang

image.png.76c1d88a0ecfe78a580d3fa73df43070.png Phrae 12:00   42 μg/m3  -  AQI 117

image.png.b485c0b0bee19b62b01fec4fbe4fc6b7.png Tak-MaeRamatHosp.

http://aqicn.org/here/

https://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.calculator

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Tonight a simple form for converting AQI to ugm3 and vice versa (AQI 0 - 164)

 

PM2.5 (ug/m3)

AQI

  

PM2.5 (ug/m3)

AQI

0

 

0

  

20

Moderate

68

1

 

4

  

21

 

70

2

 

8

  

22

 

72

3

 

13

  

23

 

74

4

 

17

  

24

 

76

5

 

21

  

25

 

78

6

 

25

  

26

 

80

7

 

29

  

27

 

82

8

 

33

  

28

 

84

9

 

38

  

29

 

87

10

 

42

  

30

 

89

11

 

46

  

31

 

91

12

 

50

  

32

 

93

13

Moderate

53

  

33

 

95

14

 

55

  

34

Moderate

97

15

 

57

  

35

 

99

16

 

59

  

36

 

102

17

 

61

  

37

Unhealthy

105

18

 

63

  

38

for

107

19

 

66

  

39

Sensitive

110

20

 

68

  

40

Groups

112
             
             

PM2.5 (ug/m3)

AQI

  

PM2.5 (ug/m3)

AQI

40

Groups

112

  

60

 

153

41

 

115

  

61

 

154

42

 

117

  

62

 

154

43

 

119

  

63

 

155

44

 

122

  

64

 

155

45

 

124

  

65

 

156

46

 

127

  

66

 

156

47

 

129

  

67

 

157

48

 

132

  

68

 

157

49

 

134

  

69

 

158

50

 

137

  

70

 

158

51

Unhealthy

139

  

71

 

159

52

for

142

  

72

 

160

53

Sensitive

144

  

73

 

160

54

Groups

147

  

74

 

161

55

 

149

  

75

 

161

56

 

151

  

76

 

162

57

Unhealthy

152

  

77

 

162

58

 

152

  

78

 

163

59

 

153

  

79

 

163

60

 

153

  

80

 

164

 

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Phrae  -  10:00            55 ug/m3   -   AQI 150

Chiang Mai                131 ug/m3   -   AQI 190

BKK                          43-55 ug/m3   -   AQI 120-150

Chonburi-Rayong       39-73 ug/m3   -   AQI 110-160

( AQI- numbers a bit simplified )

 

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Phrae PM2.5  Dec2019 - Feb2020                                                               aqicn.org

 

 

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Feb 13

 

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Phrae 11:00 PM2.5   44 ug/m3 - AQI122   It’s windy at noon

image.png.da17cf6473db79b8b758dc239f3566db.pngimage.png.ff5cb4b090a7a966d33fef24ac049110.png

windy.com                                      aqicn.org

 

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Question in the Central Thailand Forum - 'kanchanaburi-air-quality':
What is the point of this thread? A weather report?

 

and a clear answer, thanks 'canopy':

Canopy - The air supply that everyone is sharing has been deliberately tainted to the point of negatively impacting the health of the entire population living there. This is no weather report, this is serious, man made, and totally unnecessary. Don't let the fact that this occurs annually and is so long lasting bore you of this topic, these attributes should instead sound the alarm bells even louder.

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Feb 14

 

Phrae 11:00   22mcg/m3   AQI 72

 

TH NORTH.   green. yellow. orange. a bit red

 

BKK.   13-31 mcg/m3   AQI 53-91. 

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Fires Phrae and Yom valley - Lampang, river Wang and Mae Moh

last 24 hrs. - not in scale

image.png.ec018925944b8efbdb67eb724cf0d28a.png  image.png.878e92cd7f743224abc084d835378b18.png

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Feb 15

 

 

Phrae Saturday morning AQI 'only' 104

 

Upper North worse.

 

Bangkok 'better'

 

Kamphaeng Phet, south of Sukhothai showed us at 6:44

281 mcg/m3  -  AQI 331.

image.png.b03323bb80e3170545ca7f11c8f049c3.pngimage.png.3f4ae5d0f7bcd8b0bb685f6ea6e0040a.png

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Feb 16 

 

One more sunny afternoon in Phrae.

But a peak in the morning. I don't know why...

image.png.79f91216e0bca1afe9a95e149291fbec.png

There might be a correlation?

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Phayao had 3 days of high winds. The smoke disappeared. Yesterday and today there has been no wind. Yesterday was still good but today very bad. We need some good rain toto get rid of the smoke. Hopefully we will get some big April storms

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I'm so glad for Bangkok, particularly for the humans (and animals too)

living in Kanchanaburi.  -  There the AQI is 'down' to 102.

I hope and wish this will remain...

 

BUT, what is this?  (Screenshots today 17 - 19:00)

 

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Feb 17

 

Pretty bad air up north -  Chiang Dao 416                           

image.png.4e614e952138eb60cff7221b9037f2cf.png image.png.cc2bc3971938452d1860ea5d9e54d18e.png   

 

image.png.8da8aa357deb29cd6c58aecd668390f3.pngimage.png.e97b4cb2fe011983456c8399704da03b.png 

image.png.1cc35133e27fe6c8bf7881f301e3669d.png   ?              image.png.b074adf2d320a07917ae63aab8b7e05e.png  ?

 

 

Fires ChiangMai-Lampang-Phrae (last 24 hrs.)

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More bad air?

 

Everly Brothers

thanks for your music.

image.png.3e7edbc90c3fe3258464c04f2d050fe1.png  died because of COPD.

This never ever could happen in Thailand!?

 

By the way, the Everly Brothers always have been one of the

best groups, musically and globally speaking - for ever.

Followed by 'The Shadows' and Cliff Richard.

Next great group I would say 'The Beach Boys'.

Sorry, I forgot to mention so many ...

(just remembered Rickie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke,

Otis, Aretha, Diana, The Beatles, Stones, Johnny Halliday...)

It's a strange world ...

 

Sorry, almost also forgot PM2.5 TH-North:

image.png.4fa4fe7600e20249d11859b626df6c6b.png

 

But other parts of the world not much better?

image.png.67acbb36c7060e341ca71408ca60fc18.png

 

Remembering a friend - Wolfgang Asam - Munich - Berlin.

Tory and Lauren - Detroit

Steve - Pensacola

George - Ballarat

Anatoli - Taching

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Feb 18

 

At noon - almost the same picture:

image.png.45ccf3edaff8d8cf40e714220401c3c6.png

 

Phrae 10:00   61 ug/m3  -  AQI 154

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Feb 18-I

 

Much better(?) at night

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Feb 18-II 

 

This great website is working again. Thanks to all involved.

image.png.6c0aa9d812f013e992755a8d27fea1a2.png

http://berkeleyearth.org/air-pollution-overview/

 

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Feb 18-III

 

I think we all are in the middle of fine dust. Particulate matter...

You don't see it, you can't smell it.

*** So what's the problem? ***

I hope, someone might find out, where all this sh!t

in our neighbourhood comes from. - Thanks.

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