Is the Weather noticeably hotter this year in Thailand?

[Denim]

On our balcony yesterday , in the shade at mid day :

 

 

[toofarnorth]

When I arrived here many years ago I was told there are 3 seasons , Hot , Very hot and Most hot .

Today at 10 am up here it is hot very big. So a new catagory.

[seajae]

days have been definitely hotter than usual, also all the unseasonal rain storms do not help either, by this time of the year our dam is usually almost dry but this year it is virtually overflowing and has been for weeks. Just 30 minutes outside and I am soaking wet, never happened before this year, the usual weather patterns appear to have changed a lot, making it hard to plan ahead with the trees and what we normally do in the dry season

[Enzian]

What matters is how many hours per day it stays uncomfortably hot, not so much the numerical highs. Joe's chart above shows that the highs and lows don't really vary as much as the seasonal differences make us think. In "winter" there might be two uncomfortable hours in the early afternoon. Right now in Bangkok it can be "hot" at 9 am and last till 7 to 11 pm.

I normally walk an hour or two right after dark. But now I walk on the treadmill in the air con gym at noon and take a much shorter walk after dark. 

In 2016 I swore I would never spend another April in LOS, but the complexities of Covid screwed that up.

[Pouatchee]

Who can tell by feeling?

It is always hot here.

 

[GarryP]

14 minutes ago, seajae said:

days have been definitely hotter than usual, also all the unseasonal rain storms do not help either, by this time of the year our dam is usually almost dry but this year it is virtually overflowing and has been for weeks. Just 30 minutes outside and I am soaking wet, never happened before this year, the usual weather patterns appear to have changed a lot, making it hard to plan ahead with the trees and what we normally do in the dry season

I think you being soaking wet after 30 minutes is more to do with humidity than absolute temperature. 

[BangkokReady]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Fans create airflow and a false sense of comfort, but they don’t do anything to actually reduce your body temperature. 

Really?  If the fan makes you feel cool it isn't actually making you feel cool?

[shackleton]

Yes it is getting hotter up here in Chai Nat 

Noticed the wife is  switching on the airconditioner earlier in the afternoon 

Off about 1700hrs  then on again later when we sleep 

Going to be some expensive electrical bills coming up

[Andrew Dwyer]

1 minute ago, shackleton said:

Yes it is getting hotter up here in Chai Nat 

Noticed the wife is  switching on the airconditioner earlier in the afternoon 

Off about 1700hrs  then on again later when we sleep 

Going to be some expensive electrical bills coming up

Just up the road, in Lat Yao, it’s warming up nicely ????

 

[salsajapan]

oh ! so good ! the yearly useless post about hot weather in summer...

Similar to the west stupid news about snow in winter...

 

 

[sungod]

Another 'scoop' by a guy with self proclaimed 'journalistic skills! '

 

This is the hot season, it's hot every year. The next season will be the rainy season where you guessed it, it rains!

[Stevemercer]

I think the last two years have been cooler than usual. This year, we even had a cool snap mid-March. January and Febrary saw cooler wether arrive just as the days started heating up.

 

We are almost through April and the unbearable heat has finally arrived.

[rickudon]

In Udon Thani, definitely cooler overall this year. I had a bumper crop of beetroot and carrots, which usually start to die end of March. Highest temperature on my Maximum-minimum thermometer has been 39.5 Centigrade - usually would have had a half dozen 40 plus days by now. Last couple of days have been hot, 37-38 Centigrade, but has only done that about 7 or 8 times so far.

I have lived here for 12 years, so know what to expect. Climate change, yes, but it affects areas differently - the highs have not gone up, but the lows have. Ten years ago, in the cold season, you would see people dressed like Eskimos  in the morning, or sitting around wood fires to warm up, very rare now. In the cold season, now temperatures overnight about 15 Centigrade, or more. Now, last few days overnight temperatures have barely fallen below 30 Centigrade - indoors lowest has been 31.3 Centigrade. Just checked, and 35 Centigrade already and not even midday. The sun hasn't even got round to my room, does that about 2 p.m. and it will rise quickly then!

 

Rain - practically zero from October to March, very different 10 years ago. Well dry for only the second time in 12 years, but fish ponds slightly better due to the cooler winter.

 

 

[Purdey]

The World Bank calculates that the Mean annual temperature in Thailand has increased by 0.8°С since the 1950's. It could feel hotter with humidity though.

[Andycoops]

Up here in Yaso we've had several days of 'feels like 41/42/43' etc and it is blisteringly hot.

[billd766]

5 hours ago, vandeventer said:

The heat hasn't really even hit us yet, so turn off your A/C's and get use to it. After all you didn't retire in the north pole. Remember things can always get worse, like having very hot weather in the burn off season, count your blessings.

Really??  38.6C in the shade isn't very hot? That is what it was here yesterday afternoon. This morning at 5:30am it had dropped to 25.4C.

 

At 12:30 pm, just now it is 36.8C and it will get hotter by mid afternoon.

 

Todays temp

25.4C = 77.7F

36,8C = 98.24F

 

Yesterday

38.6C = 101.48F

[KhunBENQ]

Weather is coming back to normal here.

Hot

BUT during March early and plenty of rain, beginning of April cold!

Some of "coldest" days people remember.
With greetings from China.

For me this year is NOT hotter than usual.

Tomorrow the sun peaks over Bangkok (89.9 at 12:15).

From previous years I remember the alarming messages about peak electric power usage for this day. Nothing seen so far.

BTW for the next few days a slight cool down expected.

EDIT: just noticed that there is news thread exactly confirming:

"Sun will be directly over Thailand on Wednesday, but not the hottest day"

[chilli42]

This is the most interesting and well researched article on TVF in months!  

[San Fran Dan]

Heck No been a Mild Songkran , but May and June maybe too hot 

[Acharn]

This year hasn't seemed hotter than usual -- so far. I live in Nakhon Sawan, and I haven't seen the temperature go over 40° -- yet. I well remember the heat wave during April 2018. Every damned day it got up to 44-5°. That was hot. Don't know what next month will bring, and my Thai family are complaining that it's too hot, but I'm OK so far.

[paulikens]

 the hottest three month are april,may and june. so all these people on here posting its very hot. well yea thats what happens every year at this time.  and its no hotter than any other year.    

[Antiparovian]

I blame The Government

[Iamfalang]

seems about normal, actually.

 

definitely not crazy where I'm like, "wow, it's never been this hot for so long before."   

 

it is hot?  yes.  uncomfortably hot?  yes.   cold at night?   not often.   Do I wish it was much, much colder, like 25?  yes.    people I know from the Philippines think Thailand is a little cold.    

[AgMech Cowboy]

Bulldung, this has not been a hot April. I can tell by the 'temperature' and the monthly electricity bill, which is about 2500 baht lower than last year.

[csmith]

[Meat Pie 47]

It is not really that hot in Thailand it is the humidity I am in OZ and we had temperatures above 40 plus for 15 days in a row plus one day of 50.7 but it is not humid I don't mind at all but in Thailand when it goes to 35 I am swetting

[geisha]

Strange all these different opinions. I was in Phuket Jan to 1 st March and found the weather unbearable in February. Spent over 20 snowbird years there so I know it’s hot. It was humid, stormy , high winds thunderstorms often evenings. I was glad to leave for Bangkok. There I just found it normal hot. I wouldn’t stay a long time in Phuket again. I only went to see my old friends. All said , I find the Pattaya area climate much better generally. I think the climate it getting more humid. 
Back in S France home, same thing, awful weather , tho apparently Jan/Feb was good. March and April cold , many parts of France completely dry, it’s warmer in the UK than Cannes !!!! 

[actonion]

23 hours ago, Henryford said:

Maybe they turned it off to do maintenance.

To do repairs  .... because no maintenance

[mogandave]

This year seems cooler than usual to me, in Bangkok anyway.

[cliveshep]

Been just N of Minburi (BKK) for 7 years, it isn't hotter I think than in any of the previous years but this year has proven to be a damn sight wetter. For weeks now the forecast has been almost 50% chances of daily thunderstorms and rain. Frankly, if rain in April is evidence of Global Warming, then please light more fires and increase it as it cleans the air, waters gardens, and generally cools things down!

 

I hate the heat, so does my wife. We live here because Theresa May would not let her live in England once I retired and as far as TM is concerned God does NOT answer prayer! Bad cess to that woman. So I chose to sell up and leave to stay with my Thai wife who faithfully loves and cares for me. BUT we both hate the heat and humidity and how the climate destroys everything. We use fans during the day up to about 31C, but after that it's air-con from around 2.00pm to 8.00 or 9,00pm. So far used it about half of the days in the last month, we figure it costs us 85 baht a day in electricity to cool the ground floor lounge.

 

We run both a fan and air-con in the bedroom for my 2 hour afternoon siesta and all night from around 9.00pm until around 7.00am. Even with 2 freezers and 1 fridge without the lounge AC the electric bills were around 2200baht a month, adding the lounge this last month or so it rose to 3400 baht but given how much more comfortable we were it was worth doing. 

 

So my opinion - temperatures pretty much the same year on year but this year lots of unseasonal rain.