Heat Index Rises to 54°C in Some Areas, Health Risk Warned

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BANGKOK, April 21 (TNA) – The heat index will soar to 54°C in three areas, Bangkok’s Bangna, Chon Buri and Phuket, said Chomparee Chompurat, the Director-General of the Meteorological Department.

It could be the peak of heat index this summer. Hot temperatures combined with relative humidity could pose a health risk to people staying outside in hot weather.

 

The department warns people who spend time in temperatures between 41 °C – 54 °C, classified as dangerous and very dangerous levels are at risk of developing muscle cramp and heat stroke.

 

Full story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-1157963

 

-- © Copyright Thai News Agency 2023-04-21

 

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[KannikaP]

What is HEAT INDEX vs TEMPERATURE please?

[dinsdale]

1 minute ago, KannikaP said:

What is HEAT INDEX vs TEMPERATURE please?

Don't know but what I do know today is ###########################n hot.

[KannikaP]

1 minute ago, dinsdale said:

Don't know but what I do know today is ###########################n hot.

Found it on Mr Bingle, thanks.

40 degrees and 50% humidity = 55 degrees heat index.

 

[KhunBENQ]

They do significant damage for Thailand tourism with these alarmist "heat index" numbers.
In the western media it simply appears as headlines like "Heat wave in Thailand, temperatures over 50 degrees".

[1FinickyOne]

5 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

What is HEAT INDEX

The heat index (HI) is an index that combines air temperature and relative humidity, in shaded areas, to posit a human-perceived equivalent temperature, as how hot it would feel if the humidity were some other value in the shade. The result is also known as the "felt air temperature", "apparent temperature", "real feel" or "feels like". For example, when the temperature is 32 °C (90 °F) with 70% r... Wikipedia

[John Drake]

32 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

They do significant damage for Thailand tourism with these alarmist "heat index" numbers.
In the western media it simply appears as headlines like "Heat wave in Thailand, temperatures over 50 degrees".

It's fair, however, because this is dangerous. What is not reported and makes it even more dangerous is the nighttime lows. It only "cooled off" to 30 degrees at my house last night. And that was towards the early morning. If you're without aircon, your body just can't recover from a 41 degree day to a 30 degree low to a 40 degree day with high humidity. Put the air pollution on top of all this, and yea, it's bad. Real bad.

[dinsdale]

I wonder how the covid alarmistst will react when more people die from heatsroke than covid. Let's face more people have died on the roads today than from covid. Not sure about covid deaths today. Possibly zero.

[koolkarl]

Climate emergency at work as all politicians turn a blind eye to the Swiss accounts instead.  In the end and sooner than people think, we will either boil to death, freeze to death or drown.  Take your pick. 

[isaanistical]

57 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Found it on Mr Bingle, thanks.

40 degrees and 50% humidity = 55 degrees heat index.

 

... and  probably means the UN or some such will pay out for climate change. Its nonsense. The Thai scientist probably thinks it sounds more spectacular - although I just passed the Department of Meteorology on Sukhumvit and their counter on the front of the buldling said 37.1.

But this week I have seen 39 on my (in shade) thermometer and that equals the top I have seen here; locals are moaning a lot more than usual. Yes, this one is hot for a change.

[isaanistical]

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

They do significant damage for Thailand tourism with these alarmist "heat index" numbers.
In the western media it simply appears as headlines like "Heat wave in Thailand, temperatures over 50 degrees".

these being tourists who defy the filthy air pollution but will suddenly get scared by the heat? Not..........

[ChipButty]

It's hot here in the south of Phuket 

[mudcat]

Not related to the misery index (also known as the windchill factor) in the US midwest, but similar in that it results in scary headlines.

 

NOAA's chart with some commentary

 

https://beerglo.amebaownd.com/posts/37130531

[Tropicalevo]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

What is HEAT INDEX vs TEMPERATURE please?

On some weather web-sites it is sometimes known as 'feels like' temperature.

[KannikaP]

1 minute ago, Tropicalevo said:

On some weather web-sites it is sometimes known as 'feels like' temperature.

Yep, in UK we regularly get 5 degrees, but feels like

-5 degrees.

[dinsdale]

23 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

On some weather web-sites it is sometimes known as 'feels like' temperature.

Feels ##################################n hot to me and I'm an Aussie.

[sammieuk1]

My aircon has fried itself that's all I know bigger one coming tomorrow ???? 

[Denim]

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Don't know but what I do know today is ###########################n hot.

And least when I'm in hell I might have got used to the heat. Now only the hot poker up the harris to worry about.

[Tarteso]

The climate has definitely changed and is getting worse, we are literally going to fry.????

 

https://www.arabiaweather.com/en/content/for-the-first-time-thailand-sets-a-record-for-the-highest-temperature-due-to-a-heat-wave-hitting-southeast-asian-countries

 

 

[Jonnapat]

41/42c every day in Nakhon Sawan last 3/4 weeks. 

Almost bloody unbearable. 

Where have the thunderstorms gone?

[Burma Bill]

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Possibly zero.

One - an elderly foreigner from the new Arcturus variant. 

[dinsdale]

4 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

One - an elderly foreigner from the new Arcturus variant. 

That was reported yesterday but happened before the 17th according to the article. No reports of any more since globally from what I've seen.

[Burma Bill]

29 minutes ago, Jonnapat said:

Where have the thunderstorms gone?

Cambodia - reference 19 April 2023:

 

“Starting today, most areas in the country could experience rain accompanied by lightning and  strong winds till Saturday. Lowland areas will experience temperatures of 39 degrees Celsius,” the ministry said in a statement

 

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501275424/beware-more-storms-on-the-way/

 

[LukKrueng]

4 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Found it on Mr Bingle, thanks.

40 degrees and 50% humidity = 55 degrees heat index.

 

Had 50 degrees with 40% humidity the other week. That's 81C heat index. No wonder it felt like I was walking through a convection oven ????

[zzaa09]

3 hours ago, isaanistical said:

these being tourists who defy the filthy air pollution but will suddenly get scared by the heat? Not..........

Sensitive pansies.

Avoid torrid zone conditions if one isn't accustom or easily offended by such. 

 

Tropical situations have remained the same for ages.

Not a revelation. 

 

 

[Partenavia]

15 years ago in Chiang Rai we used to get temperatures in the high 30's end March/April. However, we also used to get thunderstorms reguarly during this period. Which cleared the air of smoke, and cooled things off, particuarly at night. This year by comparison, we have had no significant rain since October. The smoke has been horendous for long periods of time, and the heat unbearable during the day. The garden is like a desert, instead of green and fresh.

 

[Nong Khai Man]

23 hours ago, LukKrueng said:

Had 50 degrees with 40% humidity the other week. That's 81C heat index. No wonder it felt like I was walking through a convection oven ????

NOT Here You Didn't have 50c ........The ALL-TIME Record was broken last week in Tak When it reached 45.4c......

[connda]

On 4/21/2023 at 1:57 PM, KannikaP said:

What is HEAT INDEX vs TEMPERATURE please?

Simply?  It's not the actual temperature but it's what you subjectively feel like the temperature is.  Which is relative.

Someone getting off the plane in Chiang Mai is going to feel like its a HELL of a lot hotter than those of us who are acclimatized. 

On the positive note, were starting to pop some local thunderheads in Northern Thailand.  Rain would be good to clear this God-awful PM2.5 air pollution out.

[Puccini]

On 4/21/2023 at 8:57 AM, KannikaP said:

What is HEAT INDEX vs TEMPERATURE please?

These web pages give a good explanation:

https://windy.app/blog/feels-like-temperature.html#:~:text=Air temperature is a real,air humidity and wind speed.

 

https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2012/02/15/what-is-feels-like-temperature/#:~:text=We calculate a 'feels like,during cold and windy days.

 

[Puccini]

In the screenshot from the meteoblu app below, the left column shows the actual temperature, the right column the feels-like temperature.