It's back! Lousy air quality...ugh

[redwood1]

2 minutes ago, Guderian said:

The AQI is bad and rising this morning, 170 an hour ago and over 180 now. Much higher and we'll be in the list of the top 10 most polluted cities in the world.

Way to go Thailand - not!

 

The air pollution is dreadful today....Buildings only 1 mile away or less are very fuzzy....

[jomtienisgood]

22 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

The air pollution is dreadful today....Buildings only 1 mile away or less are very fuzzy....

Thank you very much for keeping us updated like this. Maybe some of the pollution is due to the energy Big Brother Hardware is using????

Just joking;;;;

[Guderian]

31 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

The air pollution is dreadful today....Buildings only 1 mile away or less are very fuzzy....

 

About a year ago, you may remember, we had much the same problem. That prompted me to buy my first N95 face mask. Little did I know that, all too soon, such things would become a normal part of our lives all year long.

[redwood1]

I am on 2nd road and Harbor Mall is in a haze......Thats pretty bad....

[Banana7]

Most of the pollution is coming from Bangkok. At 14:15 on 21 Jan  2021 it is over 500 US AQI in Samut Sakhon, just south of Bangkok. Here in Pattaya it is in the 160-180 range according to IQair Airvisual. Less than 50 is considered safe.

[Guderian]

1 hour ago, Banana7 said:

it is over 500 US AQI in Samut Sakhon

 

Given where it is, that's probably a cloud of SARS-COV2 rather than smog, lol.

[redwood1]

Pollution is worse today than yesterday....I might have to wear a mask...

Edited January 22, 2021 by redwood1

[Rimmer]

 

[kingofthemountain]

1 hour ago, Rimmer said:

 

Unfortunately a burning ban announced today untill tomorrow will have absolute 0 effect

it's just hot air (No pun intented)

 

Thailand needs desperatly a permanent ban on outdoor burning with a REAL enforcement

and fines REALLY paid. Untill then people will continue to die in this unbreathable air

[jomtienisgood]

4 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

Unfortunately a burning ban announced today untill tomorrow will have absolute 0 effect

it's just hot air (No pun intented)

 

Thailand needs desperatly a permanent ban on outdoor burning with a REAL enforcement

and fines REALLY paid. Untill then people will continue to die in this unbreathable air

Does that also mean we cannot BBQ anymore, obviously in full respect of distancing, etc....

[kingofthemountain]

32 minutes ago, jomtienisgood said:

Does that also mean we cannot BBQ anymore, obviously in full respect of distancing, etc....

I am afraid even a BBQ contributes to the bad air quality

only one doesn't have an impact, but millions have

and we all know how people like BBQ

now it's a choice, a tasty food on the grill at the moment

or healthy lungs for you and your family, including your children, for all the life ?

[Banana7]

At midnight 22 January 2021, here in Pattaya, now is the best quality air in the last 24 hours, and also the best quality air forecasted for the next 24 hours, the air quality is a dire 168 AQI. Peak should be about 4 P.M. on Saturday. Be glad you're not in Bangkok, where AQI is above 600!

 

Here are the details from https://air.plumelabs.com/air-quality-in-Pattaya-6LX1

 

AQI

• 168 PM2.5
• 156 PM10
• 8 NO2
• 137 O3

µg/m³

• 118 PM2.5
• 168 PM10
• 15 NO2
• 218 O3

 

Some news articles claim the pollution is coming from burning rice fields but if you look at

https://www.ventusky.com

and click on air quality, you'll see the pollution is coming from Bangkok, not rice fields burning in Northern Thailand.

 

Edited January 22, 2021 by Banana7

[redwood1]

8 hours ago, Banana7 said:

At midnight 22 January 2021, here in Pattaya, now is the best quality air in the last 24 hours, and also the best quality air forecasted for the next 24 hours, the air quality is a dire 168 AQI. Peak should be about 4 P.M. on Saturday. Be glad you're not in Bangkok, where AQI is above 600!

 

Here are the details from https://air.plumelabs.com/air-quality-in-Pattaya-6LX1

 

AQI

• 168 PM2.5
• 156 PM10
• 8 NO2
• 137 O3

µg/m³

• 118 PM2.5
• 168 PM10
• 15 NO2
• 218 O3

 

Some news articles claim the pollution is coming from burning rice fields but if you look at

https://www.ventusky.com

and click on air quality, you'll see the pollution is coming from Bangkok, not rice fields burning in Northern Thailand.

 

Saudi Arabia along with North Africa has been hammered with pollution for months I guess they cant much blame the rice and sugarcane farmers burning there as easy scapegoats like they can in Thailand....

 

[redwood1]

Bangkok 10th most polluted city in the world today.....

 

https://www.iqair.com/world-air-quality-ranking

[Yom]

10 hours ago, redwood1 said:

most polluted city

 

Nice too:

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[redwood1]

Bloody hell this chem-fog pollutions stuff just won't go away....Its been hanging around Pattaya for months now......Even the media has gotten board with trotting out their whipping boy of farmers burning fields...Now they don't say anything about the source of the pollution....

Another bad day today....

[Suphawk]

Bad here in Bangkok also, looking out my ASQ window

[Guderian]

For the most part, the poor air quality in the last month hasn't really bothered me as it hasn't smelt of anything in particular. Occasionally, some idiot (I live in South Pattaya so it's not likely to be a farmer) burns rubbish and you can smell the smoke, but mostly it's been odourless. Now this morning I can smell something outside that's not smoke from burning rubbish, but it's equally unpleasant and I can't identify it. Does anyone know what it is (assuming you can smell the same niff)?

[Banana7]

This morning 2 February 2021 202 US AQI in Pattaya.

[redwood1]

16 minutes ago, Banana7 said:

This morning 2 February 2021 202 US AQI in Pattaya.

 

Boy if you guys lived in a high condo facing east towards the mountains you could really see good the pollution Pattaya has been swimming in every day for months...... 

[kingofthemountain]

3 hours ago, redwood1 said:

 

Boy if you guys lived in a high condo facing east towards the mountains you could really see good the pollution Pattaya has been swimming in every day for months...... 

True

i have this view from my balcony and it's really an apocalyptic spectacle

this permanent smog looks like a sci-fi movie about the end of the world

unfortunately it's real and happening now

sad, really sad

[jomtienisgood]

1 hour ago, kingofthemountain said:

True

i have this view from my balcony and it's really an apocalyptic spectacle

this permanent smog looks like a sci-fi movie about the end of the world

unfortunately it's real and happening now

sad, really sad

Are you sure it's not a Covid-swarm??? 555555

[brewsterbudgen]

On 2/1/2021 at 10:00 AM, Suphawk said:

Bad here in Bangkok also, looking out my ASQ window

Yes, Bangkok's got very bad recently, although it looks worse in Pattaya and Hua Hin.  Hopefully, this is the last month (until Oct/Nov next year).

[Guderian]

17 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Hopefully, this is the last month (until Oct/Nov next year).

 

Hopefully indeed. I think it's caused by the cool, high pressure system extending down over us from China during the winter months. The air isn't moving much so the pollution doesn't move very far either. The barometric pressure on my weather station this morning is 1017 mbar, which is very high by Pattaya standards, 1009 mbar would be a more normal reading. Once the high pressure system recedes to the north the air should get warmer and windier and the pollution will disperse. One forecast I saw had that starting early next week. Let's hope so, anyway.

[LALes]

Here in Jomtien, I haven't opened my windows for days.  Trying to get a hermetical seal but the <deleted> gets in anyways.

Air purifier is on constantly this week.  I can usually look out my window from the 15th floor and see all down the 

beach to Bang Saray.  I can't see squat these days.

[kingofthemountain]

35 minutes ago, LALes said:

Here in Jomtien, I haven't opened my windows for days.  Trying to get a hermetical seal but the <deleted> gets in anyways.

Air purifier is on constantly this week.  I can usually look out my window from the 15th floor and see all down the 

beach to Bang Saray.  I can't see squat these days.

Yes it's now a real problem

 

i mean a lot of us have chosen Thailand as a retirement base

because of the weather with no winter, allowing us to live outside

most of the time, enjoying the beach or outdoor activities.

 

Now with this insane degree of pollution you are forced to stay closed inside

your condo most of the time, and you put your health at high risk as soon as you have

to go outside, not really the idea i was thinking about a nice retirement life

 

Years after years, south america and particularly the caribean area seems to

be more attractive in comparison. As soon as this covid situation improve and we are

able again to travel without too much of hassle, i will probably give it a try

 

[Surelynot]

To be fair....no one could have seen this coming...555......I am just about to give up on Thailand, mainly due to the poor air quality.....Scotland beckons me thinks....Perthshire.

[redwood1]

I have been in Pattaya for many years....I honestly never remember the air quality being particularly bad...Sure there were some bad days or string of days here and there,but as I remember it did not stay long....

 

For you guys that have been paying more attention to this than me, how do you remember past years?......Was the air quality this bad for this long before?

[kingofthemountain]

1 hour ago, redwood1 said:

I have been in Pattaya for many years....I honestly never remember the air quality being particularly bad...Sure there were some bad days or string of days here and there,but as I remember it did not stay long....

 

For you guys that have been paying more attention to this than me, how do you remember past years?......Was the air quality this bad for this long before?

I am sure it was already a nightmare last year

not sure for 2 years ago in Pattaya, but it was a

big concern in Chiang Mai area 3 or 4 years ago already

and it seems to be worse years after years

it coud be linked to the fall on the rice price after the end

of the Taksin rice schem with the farmers skiping in mass

to sugar cane instead

Edited February 3, 2021 by kingofthemountain

[scubascuba3]

3 hours ago, Surelynot said:

To be fair....no one could have seen this coming...555......I am just about to give up on Thailand, mainly due to the poor air quality.....Scotland beckons me thinks....Perthshire.

Cold weather is miserable