Today, Sunday 10 December 2023, air pollution in Pattaya is unhealthy. IQair.com reports 143 in Bang Lamung at 13:50. Do you have an air purifier in your residence?

 

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It's that time of year.  Don't expect much improvement until around February.

Bangkok has been bad today, too.

I have a Xiaomi air purifier, does a good job, only use it when it's bad

It's certainly got worse since this morning in Pattaya. The AQI was a bit over 100 this morning, which you could 'see' as the big condos near me (500-1,000 m away) were a wee bit hazy. This afternoon, Air Visual says the AQI is well over 150, and over 170 in places, and indeed the 36-storey Supalei Mare condo nearby is decidedly hazy, while Unixx a bit further away is almost lost in the murk.

Pattaya just now 161 on the AQI results. We come here Dec - Feb for the 'cooler' season to our condo and have been doing so for years. But it is seemingly no longer cooler and this stinking, filthy air has finally crossed the line for me. It will never get better, the authorities will blather away but the levers that they have don't work. Europe for all it's faults dealt with air pollution decades ago - Asia never will.

 

You would think the rich Thais who have numerous properties and lifestyles would want their "in their pockets" governments to do something about poor farmers and the like who are crapping all over their rich entitled world, but the dysfunction must run deep because it never gets solved only worse.

 

I guess for Indian and other Asian countries they know no better so this filth is an improvement as they do their tourism stuff. So they probably neither notice nor care. Same with the 3-week 'millionaire' sex tourist. 

 

TAT's new advertising slogan should be Thailand - Cheap for a Reason