Extreme Air Pollution

[Banana7]

Today, air pollution in Pattaya is very bad. Lots of pollution coming from the Bangkok area.

[Halfaboy]

This is caused by the rich people burning their paper money.... Can take a long time before this is finished....

[champers]

Wear a mask.

[JoePai]

1 hour ago, champers said:

Wear a mask.

 

[Skeptic7]

Yep been pretty smokey/smoggy here past few days. Couple mornings could even smell it. The wonderful, wealthy Thai tourist attractions just keep beckoning the billionaires! 

[morrobay]

16 hours ago, JoePai said:

 

Not a bad idea with all these cigarette smoking slobs in Pattaya. It's bad enough putting up with these thai males working on two packs a day. Walking outside by these cigarette smoking foreigners and inhaling a stream of smoke leaves me coughing more than any air pollution. The sooner this town can attract higher class visitors the better. While displacing these slobs lying around smoking. For example the sorry mess at these outside places around Pattaya Tai near tuc com .Most of these farang females smoke too. What are they doing here anyway ??

Its bad enough just looking at them. Most of them could make a freight train take dirt road.

[LALes]

3 straight days over 150 reading.  Haven't even opened the windows in all that time.  What rich tourist wouldn't want to be part of this?

[LALes]

Smog season gets worse and worse every year.  It used to be January and February.  Then, it started creeping into 

late December.  Now, it starts in mid-December.  

[jacko45k]

22 minutes ago, Skeptic7 said:

Yep been pretty smokey/smoggy here past few days. Couple mornings could even smell it. The wonderful, wealthy Thai tourist attractions just keep beckoning the billionaires! 

I can smell burning an hour or two after sunset..... 

[morrobay]

This air is out to get you

[lopburi3]

15 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

I can smell burning an hour or two after sunset..... 

Perhaps more homeless these days trying to keep warm at night?  

[jacko45k]

Just now, lopburi3 said:

Perhaps more homeless these days trying to keep warm at night?  

No I don't believe so in my area, we have quite a lot of cultivated fields. 

[bbko]

This being the dry season I'm sure helps kick up more than usual dust in the air.

[lopburi3]

3 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

No I don't believe so in my area, we have quite a lot of cultivated fields. 

Indeed you are likely right and that is always an issue - and even more so under current economic conditions - burn is the cheap solution so without law enforcement or incentives even those knowing better are unlikely to be able to limit and everyone suffers.  And as the recent typhoon in PI attests it is likely a worldwide issue.  

[wasabi]

Yep high PM 2.5 levels is a magnet for high end high rolling tourists though they could just Photoshop the skies blue in their ad campaigns

[ed79]

I have an AQI monitor and in the UK while it is generally under 50 there are days when it would read over 150.

 

Having said that yesterday in Pattaya was the worst I've seen for a while - 150 indoors yesterday morning with the windows closed, and a bit over 200 if I poked it out the window.

 

Hanoi in November 2019 was the absolute worst I've personally seen.  I woke up to a reading of 320 indoors.  Went out on the balcony and it went up to 400.  Could barely see the buildings on the other side of the road.

[Guderian]

It's probably just Anutin burning all the unused Sinovac that he ordered, lol.

[ed79]

Here's my indoor readings for the past 6 weeks or so.  Gaps the graph is because the stupid thing keeps turning itself off...

[KhunLA]

54 minutes ago, ed79 said:

Here's my indoor readings for the past 6 weeks or so.  Gaps the graph is because the stupid thing keeps turning itself off...

Think you should invest in some air purifiers.  Can highly recommend Xiami's.  I have 2 and bought my daughter one for her condo in BKK

[HappyExpat57]

Well, the eternal optimist in me is rejoicing - we're gonna have a white Christmas!

[Tropposurfer]

All sorts of pollution in Patt's; Ugly plump over-the-top makeup lady boys, ugly plump over-the-top makeup real ladies, insane neon-light pollution, noise pollution, garbage pollution, sea pollution (an open sewer - when the normal insane levels of tourists are there that is).  All in all a true world class resort ...

[ed79]

9 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Think you should invest in some air purifiers.  Can highly recommend Xiami's.  I have 2 and bought my daughter one for her condo in BKK

That was actually one of the first things I planned to buy when I moved here.  I held off though as looking at the historical data the worst is usually over by some time in Feb anyway. Chonburi, Thailand Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index (aqicn.org)

 

 

[KhunLA]

1 minute ago, ed79 said:

That was actually one of the first things I planned to buy when I moved here.  I held off though as looking at the historical data the worst is usually over by some time in Feb anyway. Chonburi, Thailand Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index (aqicn.org)

 

 

don't think so.  Usually runs from Dec to 1st rains, May or late April.

[ed79]

4 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

don't think so.  Usually runs from Dec to 1st rains, May or late April.

I was just basing that on the last 2 years where most of the orange and red is gone by March.  Personally anything under 100 I'm not bothered about.  Even in fairly rural UK I'd generally get readings between about 30 and 80.

 

Also I don't like spending money ????

 

If I were in Chiang Mai it'd be a different story.

[CygnusX1]

34 minutes ago, ed79 said:

Even in fairly rural UK I'd generally get readings between about 30 and 80.

AQI of 12 currently in my place in Australia right now. Makes me feel slightly better about being stranded in the most boring country in the world for the next few years.

[ed79]

14 minutes ago, CygnusX1 said:

AQI of 12 currently in my place in Australia right now. Makes me feel slightly better about being stranded in the most boring country in the world for the next few years.

I did get a "1" on mine once, then it changed its mind and said 20.  There are days when it hoovers around 4 or 5.

 

Of course any cooking involving frying freaks it out.

 

And surprisingly, cheap toilet cleaning gel.  I was in Vietnam and out of nowhere it went up to 350.  I couldn't smell anything, looked out the window, no smoke anywhere.  Went wandering round the apartment eventually into the toilet where I'd squirted a Vietnam own-brand version of toilet duck.  Reading shot up to 500 which is basically as high as it goes.

 

I don't know what they put in that stuff but it probably wasn't too healthy.

 

 

[TimBKK]

2 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Think you should invest in some air purifiers.  Can highly recommend Xiami's.  I have 2 and bought my daughter one for her condo in BKK

By chance, have a link for the Xiami?

[KhunLA]

6 minutes ago, TimBKK said:

By chance, have a link for the Xiami?

https://www.lazada.co.th/xiaomi/?q=All-Products&langFlag=th&from=wangpu&lang=th&pageTypeId=2