That heatwave isn't normal

[Rampant Rabbit]

pah its  hotter  than the last 4  years in Pranburi but thats the only difference, previous to those  years it was where it is today for  about 2  years. One year even saw 13c in the morning, havent seen that since (7years ago) so for me have had the last 3-4  years  cooler and wetter, previous 2 years  hotter  drier, can tell easily by the trees  in the mountain next to me. Then last 3-4 the mountains stay green, in the hot years they go brown,. this year theyre brown.

Maxed out at 43.1 c 4  -5 years  ago, this year max so far 42

No one seem to mention that a few  years  ago it was very wet, almsot every day had  rain in the rainy season and beyond, I know as I worked outdoors for years and had to keep jetwashing the black mildew off concrete. Havent had to do any this  year and most of last year either. I spoke to the shopkeeper who lives round here and  he said it goes like that, couple of really dry years then some rainy etc, nothing unusual for him.

[mania]

16 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Yes.

It's not even close to normal but wondering if this is the new normal. 

 

Thinking it is headed in the direction of new normal...But still has more heat to come. 

[susanlea]

32 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

By a degree or two. Can you feel the difference in a degree or two?

More like 0.1 or 0.2 recently. None of us were alive in 1900 when it was a degree hotter.

 

Nobody can feel a 0.2 difference.

[thaibeachlovers]

13 hours ago, Startmeup said:

Better get used to it, the world looks to be exiting the great cooling period and now temperatures are rising to get back to historical norms.

As hard as it might be to comprehend, the Weather changes, it has always changed and it will always change in the future. 

 

If one wants to make money off weather it's apparently quite easy to BS enough people to mint it.

The propaganda machine is working overtime to convince people that it's all our fault and if we buy an EV and pay more tax the weather will change to utopian.

 

Baaah baaaah.

[Old Croc]

16 hours ago, AnotherOneHere said:

I lived here for 12 years. Never owned or used an aircon. 1 week ago I got one installed. 🥵 Which sums it up for me.

Here 14 years, always had aircons, never used them. Fans sufficient.

Turned on the never used one in the newish house the other day, didn't work. Rats had eaten wires, lizards lived inside - even found snakeskin in the unit. All the gas had gone (probably didn't help the environment).

Called the guy, hardly had it off since. 

[Startmeup]

18 hours ago, AnotherOneHere said:

I lived here for 12 years. Never owned or used an aircon. 1 week ago I got one installed. 🥵 Which sums it up for me.

Yes sums up that you're now old, soft and lazy. 😉

 

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If one wants to make money off weather it's apparently quite easy to BS enough people to mint it.

The propaganda machine is working overtime to convince people that it's all our fault and if we buy an EV and pay more tax the weather will change to utopian.

 

Baaah baaaah.

 

 

[Expat68]

Yes it is the hottest I can remember up here in NE Issaan, I have live here permanently since 2010

[newbee2022]

23 hours ago, shocky2012 said:

I've been in Thailand since 2010. Went through alot of raining, hot and cold seasons but I've never been through something like that.

I feel like I'm a walking deep fried chicken everytime I go out (I'm in Nakhon Sawan).

Honestly -- is it this bad where you are?

We're staying around Chumphon directly at the beach. Temps around 34 at the sea, behind the beach 37. Yes, it's hot but tolerable, thanks to aircon.

[wwest5829]

23 hours ago, shocky2012 said:

I've been in Thailand since 2010. Went through alot of raining, hot and cold seasons but I've never been through something like that.

I feel like I'm a walking deep fried chicken everytime I go out (I'm in Nakhon Sawan).

Honestly -- is it this bad where you are?

I put the bid in at worse … due to the air pollution here in Chiang Mai. Riding on the motorbike feels like driving into the mouth of a blast furnace. Last time, when I arrived home actually felt weak and a bit dizzy. The Weather Channel said it felt like 44C that day = so over 110F! Yikes!

[rwill]

The last 3 years the hot season was cooler than normal where I live.  Never hit 40.  This year 90% of the days are around 40.

[Peterphuket]

For many weeks now, everyday between 44 and 47ºC!

Edit, at the moment 44.0ºC

[susanlea]

1 minute ago, Peterphuket said:

For many weeks now, everyday between 44 and 47ºC!

Edit, at the moment 44.0ºC

37 now, dropping to 34 soon. 

[roger buttmore]

46 minutes ago, Expat68 said:

Yes it is the hottest I can remember up here in NE Issaan, I have live here permanently since 2010

 

Surely there are transport services available for you to get back to civilisation.

[Katatonica]

23 hours ago, AreYouGerman said:

Yes, we are using millions of years worth of sun-grown energy deposits up all at the same time. That's why we're way out of whack.

[Katatonica]

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If one wants to make money off weather it's apparently quite easy to BS enough people to mint it.

The propaganda machine is working overtime to convince people that it's all our fault and if we buy an EV and pay more tax the weather will change to utopian.

 

Baaah baaaah.

The anti-global warming effort was sponsored by Conoco et al to the tune of millions but they now admit they lied to counter the findings of thousands of scientists, who were not lying nor in a position to be funding advertising campaigns.

[Freddy42OZ]

22 hours ago, rattlesnake said:

The heat is normal for the season, turn off your TV.

 

 

 

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/thailand/bangkok/historic

 

 

Anyone who has lived here for more than a few years should be used to the hot weather.  

Although when I see blokes walking around with an extra 30-40 kilos of body fat it's no wonder they feel hot. 

 

[micmichd]

23 hours ago, AreYouGerman said:

In Germany they simple relabeled 'summer' as 'heat wave'.

Germans don't know the difference between weather and climate.  They only know they're innocent. 

[ignore it]

Man, it's been so hot I've been tipping the Grab and Lazada delivery drivers.

 

Pity the poor sods.

[CHdiver]

6 hours ago, micmichd said:

the difference between weather and climate. 

That's very easy. If it is colder then usual, its the weather. Newspaper and TV Stations do not inform about that, because it would just confuse you. If it's hotter then usual, it's climate change. Actually its a climat catastrophe already. Newspaper will report about it using bright red in weather maps, together with TV Stations. They like to cut month short if it gets a cold spell towards the end. 

 

Fun fact. Human race was two times near extinction because of cold weather. Veggies just don't grow very much in ice. Heat, at least till now, did not endanger human race. Not till Gretta came and told us all how wrong we have been .........

[Hugh Jarse]

On 5/5/2024 at 2:27 PM, Jingthing said:

Yes.

It's not even close to normal but wondering if this is the new normal. 

No ,temps are going to rise due to climate catastrophe. The global elites are responsible for fiddling while the planet burns.

[TigerandDog]

This extreme heat was being forecast almost 1 year ago when meteorologists started explaining the impact the change from La Nina to El Nino would have on temperatures.

 

What will the consequences be of the 2024 El Niño?

 

From the start of the year through to mid-2024, Thailand will face elevated temperatures and an increased likelihood of heatwaves, these being the typical outcomes of El Niño conditions. These periodic changes to the weather are driven by abnormally high sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific that then cause a redirection of the current. This begins to flow towards the east of the Pacific (i.e., to South America), while trade winds weaken bringing hotter, drier weather to the western pacific (i.e., to Southeast Asia). The most recent forecast by the Thai Meteorological Department^6/ indicates that this year, peak temperatures are likely to be 1.0-1.5^oC above normal, which would push these above their level in the summer of 2023 and well into the zone designated as ‘extremely hot’^7/. The highest temperatures will be in the north and northeast of the country, where they will reach 43.0-44.5^oC, followed by the central and eastern regions (42.0-44.0^oC), while in the BMR and the south, temperatures should hit a maximum of 40.0-41.0^oC.  Likewise, minimum temperatures are expected to be 1^oC above normal nationwide. Such high temperatures are likely to pose a danger to the environment, triggering an increase in forest fires, and exacerbating particulate pollution and health problems connected to the heat. The consequences of extreme heat will also extend to include widespread coral bleaching, problems with growth and reproduction for aquatic life, and a decline in agricultural yields. This may then trigger food shortages, leading ultimately to increases in the price of agricultural products and other consumer goods.

[CLW]

Recently watched a YT-video that said the current heatwaves have to do with El Nino and La Nina events.

For this year it is also forecasted to have a stronger and longer lasting La Nina which could lead to heavier rainfall in rainy season as usual

[Surasak]

On 5/5/2024 at 3:33 PM, bkk6060 said:

Yes, global warming everyone should go buy an electric car and stop eating meat.

As to electric cars, not at the price of a replacement battery thanks. Stop eating meat and we will be over run with cows, pigs, chicken and other edible animals. Cut down on the population and we may have a chance.

[jwest10]

On 5/5/2024 at 2:23 PM, shocky2012 said:

I've been in Thailand since 2010. Went through alot of raining, hot and cold seasons but I've never been through something like that.

I feel like I'm a walking deep fried chicken everytime I go out (I'm in Nakhon Sawan).

Honestly -- is it this bad where you are?

 

[scottiejohn]

29 minutes ago, CLW said:

Recently watched a YT-video that said the current heatwaves have to do with El Nino and La Nina events

 Who the hell relies on YT-video for serious and accurate information on anything!
                                    

[Surasak]

On 5/5/2024 at 4:15 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

There is a case to be made that solar cycles affect weather on earth, but the cycles are fairly consistent over that 11 year period with solar energy deviating by about 0.1 percent from peak to trough.

 

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115207

 

This would not explain continually rising temperature over a longer stretch of time.

 

Then there are the Milankovitch cycles that don't seem to fit the rapid rise in global temperatures.

 

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/why-milankovitch-orbital-cycles-cant-explain-earths-current-warming/

 

Until a different external effect can be identified, we are left with finding an earthbound driver of increasing temperatures. So far, it seems that the scientific consensus is an increase CO2 in the atmosphere.

If extreme CO2 is the cause of the temperatures rising, why are the not more trees and plants which thrive on CO2? Also, if CO2 is the problem, why is the global population increasing, when high concentrations of CO2 would be deadly to all animal life?

[jwest10]

3 minutes ago, jwest10 said:

 

Yes in  Kanchanaburi and just on 17 years have never known it to be so very hot and well over a month with temps well in the 100s and don't forget this is in the shade.
We had our first rain the other night and we had electric outages and for well over 4 hours but it cooled a bit but not for long and today Monday the temp well in the 40's.

Yes, drinking plenty of water but impossible not to have a couple of beers sometimes and that means going down the road for overpriced but cold beer in the past walked to the main village a 10 to 15-minute walk with more varieties.
 

[scubascuba3]

6 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

 Who the hell relies on YT-video for serious and accurate information on anything!
                                    

you still reading newspapers?

[scottiejohn]

4 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

you still reading newspapers?

Stupid question with no relevance to my post!

[scubascuba3]

2 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Stupid question with no relevance to my post!

Stupid response