Denim Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 On our balcony yesterday , in the shade at mid day : It's Hotter Than The Sun! - Apple Pie Stand-off - I'm Alan Partridge - BBC_Trim.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seajae Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzian Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pouatchee Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 Who can tell by feeling? It is always hot here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BangkokReady Posted April 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 26, 2022 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? 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shackleton Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Dwyer Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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 ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post salsajapan Posted April 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 26, 2022 oh ! so good ! the yearly useless post about hot weather in summer... Similar to the west stupid news about snow in winter... 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sungod Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevemercer Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickudon Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purdey Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andycoops Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 Up here in Yaso we've had several days of 'feels like 41/42/43' etc and it is blisteringly hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billd766 Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 (edited) 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" Edited April 26, 2022 by KhunBENQ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli42 Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 This is the most interesting and well researched article on TVF in months! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Fran Dan Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 Heck No been a Mild Songkran , but May and June maybe too hot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acharn Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulikens Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antiparovian Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 I blame The Government 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iamfalang Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgMech Cowboy Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 (edited) 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. Edited April 26, 2022 by AgMech Cowboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sticky Rice Balls Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 15 hours ago, Inala said: Informative article, for a minute there I thought it was going to be another of those alarmist left-wing articles promoting anthropological climate change which right now is the least of the world's problems. Tissues are available at 7-11---always open to dry your tears..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Pie 47 Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geisha Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 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 !!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actonion Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 23 hours ago, Henryford said: Maybe they turned it off to do maintenance. To do repairs .... because no maintenance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogandave Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 This year seems cooler than usual to me, in Bangkok anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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