Chiang Mai: Haze health warning: "Worst in world" again and dire conditions set to continue all week

Picture: Daily News

There was continuing bad news as the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai was still blanketed in haze.

Daily News reported that the department of pollution was warning the elderly, those with young children and people with health conditions to watch their health and activities closely.

Four testing stations in Chiang Mai had high levels of PM 2.5 - Chang Pheuak with 113 micrograms, Sri Phoon 106, Suthep 90 and Thepparat Hospital 88. 

The media said that things were only getting worse with the haze expected to remain for a week.

Weather and atmospheric conditions were trapping the particulate matter over the city.

In addition an index of cities around the world with bad pollution, iqair.com, gave the city a 195 rating at 7 am yesterday.

This was the worst in the world with Beijing in second. 

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This will affect daily life badly, let alone tourism.

Great advertising for tourism. But until now, they did not care. The golden goose was alive.
If they knew that pollution kills much more than covid...

It's all under control, the ptb regularly say so that it must be true. Simply a figment of people's imaginations.

The sore throats, running eyes and pungents smells are from roadside food stalls.

The thai people are burning forest all over Chiang Mai the air is terrible of course they say all the air is coming from Miramar TIT

The pollution might be affecting this forum.

My wife was driving to Hot the other day,and she said

there were fires everywhere,even the roadside verges,

every year the powers that be know it's going to happen,

and where, and do very little to prevent it,it's shocking,

Maybe they care even less this year as there are no

tourists.

regards Worgeordie

“ why you complain? Why you talk bad? Don’t think too much” 

mai dai. Mai mi. Mai ruuh.

we folks (expats)  have only 1 option! Put up or get out. As it’s mai pen rai

Palm oil plantations burning again?

it's not a lot better here in Korat.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

There was continuing bad news as the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai was still blanketed in haze.

Every year the same issue.... time the PM got all the governors in along with headmen, farmers and company owners.... and sprayed them with sanitiser to show his disgust.

That'll do it.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

those with young children and people with health conditions to watch their health and activities closely.

So, is this the solution? talking about the effect and not looking for a solution to the cause ????

 

Was planning on going to Chang Mai for a week end of this month, now it seems like it's not going to happen.

 

Anyone knows when will it end?

Number ONE..They won’t loose the rank.

Thailand No.1 again, well done!

2 hours ago, 1Gringo said:

it's not a lot better here in Korat.

Maybe, but the PM2.5 reported in this report are way lower than what they actually are, try nearer 300! 

here you go Thai government. every fire burning right now provided by NASA and Farangs that think too much. 

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:2021-03-10..2021-03-11;@103.5,15.8,7z

 

 

 

Help is on the way

the blue dot is Chiang Mai.

It never ceases to amaze me the variance in government response to events that harm people.  If you have motorcycles with no helmets, riding 3 or more killing thousands each year, that is not a problem.  If you have pollution sending 30,000 people in just a few days to hospitals in Chiang Mai, that is just normal life.  But let 1 person get Covid and the mask mandates, bar closings, restaurant limitations, flight cancellations and mandatory quarantines are immediately mandated.  Who can figure. 

 

Until the Thai population become activists and start demonstrating & demanding action from the local and national government there will be no solution. Many locals are totally complicit and untouchable, and big agri-business does not give a damn. We can study the numbers until doomsday and still there will be no improvement. 

My Thai ex (we were together 4 1/2 years) wanted me a year ago to move up there with her (and ideally buy a house for us). That was one of the reasons (though not the main one) why we broke up. Now she found a way to buy a house there 10 miles SW of the old town and she's got her son's family with her the last I heard. If I wished her ill I'd say say good, but I don't wish her ill, quite the contrary. But I don't understand why she couldn't see that this would go on and on.

Haven't heard from the guy who slagged me off for mentioning air pollution in Chang Mai on another thread.....maybe he is in hospital now?

26 minutes ago, brommers said:

Until the Thai population become activists and start demonstrating & demanding action from the local and national government there will be no solution. Many locals are totally complicit and untouchable, and big agri-business does not give a damn. We can study the numbers until doomsday and still there will be no improvement. 

Phayao has a burning ban. Most seems to be abiding by that. Mae Hong Son apparently does not or it is not generally accepted. 

1 hour ago, mybeat said:

Was planning on going to Chang Mai for a week end of this month, now it seems like it's not going to happen.

 

Anyone knows when will it end?

Rainy season—May thru Sept.

30 minutes ago, brommers said:

Until the Thai population become activists and start demonstrating & demanding action from the local and national government there will be no solution. Many locals are totally complicit and untouchable, and big agri-business does not give a damn. We can study the numbers until doomsday and still there will be no improvement. 

Thais love burning anything that is even vaguely flammable.....combine that with total ignorance of the effects of burning and you get Chang Mai's all over the country.

30 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

Thais love burning anything

That is the basis.

Then I'll add an inversion to this and combine it with continuing replenishment from Myanmar. That's it.

Firemapper shows very clearly the situation west of the Thai-Myanmar border.

Cambodia is the other hotspot responsible for air pollution in Isaan.

'inversion'

https://www.weather.gov/media/lzk/inversion101.pdf

 

 

40 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

Haven't heard from the guy who slagged me off for mentioning air pollution in Chang Mai on another thread.....maybe he is in hospital now?

Don't sweat it, I get slagged off all the time by those on here that are living in denial, for telling the truth about C Mai - but then I got throat cancer (cured by radiation Oz) as a non-smoker from breathing the wonderful "fresh air" in C Mai for over twenty years. Only done one really clever thing in my life & that was selling our beautiful house in Saraphi in 2013 and moving to Oz, where our family breathes pure clean air 24/7. I loved C Mai when I first moved there in 1992 - it's horrid for 8 or 9 months a year now & getting worse  - anyone who says it isn't is on another planet.

2 minutes ago, Aussiepeter said:

Don't sweat it, I get slagged off all the time by those on here that are living in denial, for telling the truth about C Mai - but then I got throat cancer (cured by radiation Oz) as a non-smoker from breathing the wonderful "fresh air" in C Mai for over twenty years. Only done one really clever thing in my life & that was selling our beautiful house in Saraphi in 2013 and moving to Oz, where our family breathes pure clean air 24/7. I loved C Mai when I first moved there in 1992 - it's horrid for 8 or 9 months a year now & getting worse  - anyone who says it isn't is on another planet.

Must admit I am seriously considering moving to the North of Scotland for similar reasons........longer term, heat and security of water supply will make Scotland ever more popular

Imagine being stuck in the haze in your quarantine hotel for 14 days