It's official! Thailand is hot!

 

Thai caption: Hot season comeback

Picture: Sanook

 

It's news that most tourists might be surprised to hear.

 

Thailand is now officially hot - as of Saturday. 

 

Most visitors to the kingdom could be forgiven for thinking that the old Thai joke about Thailand having three seasons - Hot, Very Hot and Extremely Hot - is not a joke at all. 

 

The meteorological office issued an official announcement that the hot season began on Saturday. 

 

February 29th marked the end of the cool season. 

 

How do the weather boffins know this?

 

It is because the wind has changed direction. 

 

Oh, and it's getting more and more stifling with each passing day. 

 

Expect the hot weather to get worse and worse until mid May, reported Sanook. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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From Jan to now has been for me the coolest in 16 years.   For me personally it has been cooler than I can remember for so long loving it I am in Sriracha.

Hot, maybe but very polluted surely.
We no longer see the sky in my province, Sakon Nakhon;
everything is white and the whole village is coughing so much pollution is enormous.

It may have been cooler in the areas outside of the metropolis this year but I didn't get a chance to enjoy that. For me its been a dusty winter which now looks to be followed by a hot hot summer hopefully without the dust!  I sure hope the rains pop up. With the shifting winds that may be possible, who knows.

Edited March 2, 20206 yr by TooBigToFit

1 hour ago, webfact said:

It's official! Thailand is hot!

Tell us something we don't know

 

56 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

Hot, maybe but very polluted surely.
We no longer see the sky in my province, Sakon Nakhon;
everything is white and the whole village is coughing so much pollution is enormous.

Strange. I live in a village 20kms east of Sakon Nakhon and enjoy very clean air. There's very little crop burning around here and, thankfully no sugarcane. I walk in the countryside every morning so I am very conscious of the air quality.

 

It is very rare for me to make a negative comment on the air quality and it's usually in the morning when cooking fires are burning, which quickly clears. I wonder what it is that causes the problem in your area.

1 hour ago, whiteman said:

From Jan to now has been for me the coolest in 16 years.   For me personally it has been cooler than I can remember for so long loving it I am in Sriracha.

Yeah, Same Same up in Nong Khai......It's been Great Up till now !!

Wow,incredible that big bright thing in the sky is getting hotter,it's known as SUMMER

3 hours ago, whiteman said:

From Jan to now has been for me the coolest in 16 years.   For me personally it has been cooler than I can remember for so long loving it I am in Sriracha.

I was there over the weekend. It was a good downpour on Friday. I was stuck in the coffee shop n the park.

Finally, the end of the virus.

2 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Strange. I live in a village 20kms east of Sakon Nakhon and enjoy very clean air. There's very little crop burning around here and, thankfully no sugarcane. I walk in the countryside every morning so I am very conscious of the air quality.

 

It is very rare for me to make a negative comment on the air quality and it's usually in the morning when cooking fires are burning, which quickly clears. I wonder what it is that causes the problem in your area.

same here, have a home in sakon, never had problems with air.

Just 31, barely survivable.

1 hour ago, spiekerjozef said:

Finally, the end of the virus.

Great , now we can all die of drought

4 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

Hot, maybe but very polluted surely.
We no longer see the sky in my province, Sakon Nakhon;
everything is white and the whole village is coughing so much pollution is enormous.

It's been the same in Mukdahan since the wind changed direction a few days ago ???? 

5 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

Hot, maybe but very polluted surely.
We no longer see the sky in my province, Sakon Nakhon;
everything is white and the whole village is coughing so much pollution is enormous.

Yup and nobody gives a rat's ass. The locals are either completely and totally ignorant, don't care or just too afraid to speak out. 

It is because the wind has changed direction.

 

  Or is it a wind up?

4 hours ago, Moonlover said:

... I walk in the countryside every morning so I am very conscious of the air quality.

How do you judge the air quality? From smell? From sight?

You can smell some pollution, not all. E.g. wood or charcoal fires smell, e.g. carbon monoxide doesn't smell.
You can see some pollution, not all.

18 minutes ago, willi2006 said:

How do you judge the air quality? From smell? From sight?

You can smell some pollution, not all. E.g. wood or charcoal fires smell, e.g. carbon monoxide doesn't smell.
You can see some pollution, not all.

As we all know, the basic cause of pollution in the rural areas is smoke from burning of fields etc. Burning of that nature is easy to detect with ones nose.

 

And if there is no smell of burning, it stands to reason that there is no carbon monoxide either The two go hand in hand. There is little traffic where I live and no industry.

 

So I'm very confident that if my nose tells me the air is good, then it's good. Being able to see the peaks of the hills 15kms away also gives me a clue and it's a rare day when I can't. ????

 

After a shower at 7am...already my t shirt is covered in sweat...roll on june

6 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

Hot, maybe but very polluted surely.
We no longer see the sky in my province, Sakon Nakhon;
everything is white and the whole village is coughing so much pollution is enormous.

Hua Hin has had the worst air quality I can remember over the last decade. I lived fairly high up and at around 2km away from the coast, and it was impossible to see the ocean many days over and over again. 

13 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

As we all know, the basic cause of pollution in the rural areas is smoke from burning of fields etc. Burning of that nature is easy to detect with ones nose.

 

And if there is no smell of burning, it stands to reason that there is no carbon monoxide either The two go hand in hand. There is little traffic where I live and no industry.

 

So I'm very confident that if my nose tells me the air is good, then it's good. Being able to see the peaks of the hills 15kms away also gives me a clue and it's a rare day when I can't. ????

 

Aw, you're no fun. For many one of the great current joys of Thai Visa is swapping horror stories about pollution. Sometimes skimming these threads reminds me of the Monty Python three Yorkshiremen sketch: "Eeh you were lucky, when I was a lad seven of us lived in a cardboard box..."

 

What is now left to us? Arguing about the effectiveness of facemasks I suppose!

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A troll post has been removed. 

 

An off topic post about Australia has been removed. 

5 hours ago, Nong Khai Man said:

Yeah, Same Same up in Nong Khai......It's been Great Up till now !!

In Udon Thani 7 and 8 years ago it was 2 and 4 Celsius at the lowest. While the cold season this year I think has had the most amount of chilly days that I can remember, but the coldest temps has been a couple of days of 10c and on average around 18c.

4 minutes ago, JAG said:

Aw, you're no fun. For many one of the great current joys of Thai Visa is swapping horror stories about pollution. Sometimes skimming these threads reminds me of the Monty Python three Yorkshiremen sketch: "Eeh you were lucky, when I was a lad seven of us lived in a cardboard box..."

 

What is now left to us? Arguing about the effectiveness of facemasks I suppose!

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I sometimes think that folks are incredulous or even jealous that I live in Thailand AND breath clean air. But it's true. The only pollutant around here is methane from farting bovines!

There's actually a town in the north called Hot.
And I read that, although some places are hotter for a few months, on a year-round basis Bangkok is the hottest city in the world.

3 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

I sometimes think that folks are incredulous or even jealous that I live in Thailand AND breath clean air. But it's true. The only pollutant around here is methane from farting bovines!

Which ministry do you live next to?

1 minute ago, Bangkok Barry said:

There's actually a town in the north called Hot.
And I read that, although some places are hotter for a few months, on a year-round basis Bangkok is the hottest city in the world.

Certainly some of the more youthful female residents are - hot that is!????

Looking at the wind maps the wind is blowing in the same direction it has been for several weeks so I'm not clear what's going on. 

 

https://www.windy.com/?18.791,98.978,5

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand is now officially hot - as of Saturday. 

No more Corona virus then, great.

2 hours ago, Vacuum said:

No more Corona virus then, great.

If they seriously think hot weather can kill off virus, they need to prohibit air con in malls, offices, theaters, etc. The heat goes on. Bonus of turning off is huge savings in electric bills & given economic impact of virus on business, every baht counts