Chiang Mai’s air quality worst in the world

[TheFishman1]

Right now it’s 196 and the PM which should be 10 to be good is 80 that’s 8 times higher then good it is really bad here TIT

[Nanaplaza666]

13 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

There are a dozen measures this inept administration could be doing, if they were competent and if they cared about the people. So, what measures are being taken to tackle this dire situation? None. Precisely zero. The people need to awaken and  rise up. 

FFP

[ChipButty]

RIP Chiang Mai seems like the people up there have got no balls they should be kicking off big style

[meshborg]

A Million Ways to Die in the East.No.321..Pollution.

[Accidental Tourist]

I sought Thailand always want's to be the Number One...

[stouricks]

On 3/1/2020 at 6:09 PM, Forza2002 said:

Come on Chiang Mai arsonists you are down to No.2 in the world, good luck getting back the No.1 tomorrow... total scumbags..  

 

 

 

 

According to the Air Visual app, my little place just outside Phitsanulok is 153, putting us joint 5th on the table. F F S what's happening?

[bkk6060]

Talking about this year after year is like talking about the road deaths.

Nothing will or is going to change.

Every year till we die, CM will have this problem.

 

[ChakaKhan]

What if we did a name and shame anonymously?..Like a facebook page or youtube vids to show the carnage?  Didnt it work when Gates-Microsoft was here or said something about the awful wiring in south?e

 

Take a pic of the burned area and post it on a FB page or upload to youtube--Name and shame

 

The internet is forever.....use the PM's pic as ur avatar!

 

 

[sletraveler]

The pm2.5 here in Faro Portugal is 16, a bit breezy, about 16c and a light surf.    ????. No garbage, little traffic, inexpensive wine, great food.  
Not missing my home in Chiang Mai one bit.

[Forza2002]

Looks like to the good air yesterday was just a one off thanks to the strong winds. Normal service resumed today.. ????

[sletraveler]

On 3/1/2020 at 4:49 AM, legend49 said:

I don't know how the fires started, but can tell you that they occur regularly every year.

 

Most fires started by these storms that Thai Met bureau keep telling us that are here. Funny that all the weather radars show no storm activity at all across all of Thailand.

I can tell you that in Lamphun Province where I live the forest underbrush is burned every year.  Locals set it on fire to promote growth of mushrooms that they pick.  Mushroom picking easily earns them more than the 350 baht they make painting all day.   As the old thai proverb says “if it can burn, burn it”

[Aussiepeter]

Heh sletraveler, if it ever becomes safe to travel again by air after the "virus," we might just give that place in Portugal a look for a visit. My family will never ever return to LOS, as the air pollution in Saraphi nearly killed me (throat cancer) but I do still like the odd glass of wine. You are right about the fires in C Mai. The mushrooms are called "het" (mushroom) and "top" (I've no idea) and grow after the jungle is burned off and, it has been that way in the far north for a hundred years or more. All this terrible xxxx air pollution is caused by illegal burning of crop residue - the mushroom producing burning just adds a little bit extra to the nice 'cosy feeling' of living seven-days-a-week in a garbage tip. Northern Thailand is finished as a place to either live, work, own a house or raise a family - anyone who tries to say otherwise is either permanently intoxicated, a liar, or is under some sort of failed self-delusion from days gone by. When I first came to CM in 1987, I thought I'd found a paradise - it was then called "the rose of the north". Thirty-three years on .... urrrrgh ! Utter filth 24/7. Not just a few months a year any more, it is every month. Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai. Everywhere. So sad to see the demise of such a once lovely place.  

[Cheesekraft]

covid is definitely helping to reduce air pollution levels, we have that going for us at least

[watgate]

It's all about greed and money over people. Truly pathetic.