Halcyon Days of Chiang Mai's December. Enjoying it much?

[GammaGlobulin]

Dear Fellow Chiang-Maiers,

 

Today, as of 4pm, has been the day we waited months to enjoy. 

 

Today has been an almost perfect day, weatherwise, with low humidity, a cloudless sky, and the sun hanging at just the right angle.  Not too hot, and not too cool; today has been the goldilocks-day of all days. Did you properly enjoy this day?  Or, did you waste it?

 

Still, one worries just how long this great weather might last, before we once-again must don our masks, following the uncertain but certain-return of smoke to our land, as it inevitably must.

 

Therefore: To the Virgins who are New to Chiang Mai

 

Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may,

    Old Time is still a-flying:

And this same flower that smiles to day,

    To morrow will be dying.

 

The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,

    The higher he's a getting;

The sooner will his Race be run,

    And neerer he's to Setting.

 

That Age is best, which is the first,

    When Youth and Blood are warmer;

But being spent, the worse, and worst

    Times, still succeed the former.

 

Then be not coy, but use your time;

    And while ye may, go marry:

For having lost but once your prime,

    You may forever tarry.

 

Enjoy this weather, while it lasts.

 

 

Best regards,

Gamma

 

 

[Old Curmudgeon]

I want to nominate this for Best Post of the Month award.

 

No!

Wait!

I just looked at it again:

 

Make that Best Post of the Year award!

 

 

[Lacessit]

We get more of that type of day in Chiang Rai, without the traffic jams.

[novacova]

3 hours ago, Old Curmudgeon said:

I want to nominate this for Best Post of the Month award.

 

No!

Wait!

I just looked at it again:

 

Make that Best Post of the Year award!

 

 

Nice you can pat yourself on the back GammaG 

[connda]

5 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Fellow Chiang-Maiers,

 

Today, as of 4pm, has been the day we waited months to enjoy. 

 

Today has been an almost perfect day, weatherwise, with low humidity, a cloudless sky, and the sun hanging at just the right angle.  Not too hot, and not too cool; today has been the goldilocks-day of all days. Did you properly enjoy this day?  Or, did you waste it?

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but really - what planet are you on?  Wife and I drove to the market in our amphur here in NE Lamphun and the haze IS back already.  The AQI sucks - and this is the wonderful December Cool Season weather that you are celebrating.  According to wife the Thai government is implementing a burn ban starting Jan 1st until probably around May. 

I can once remember clear, blue skies and AQI in the "Good" range.  What is here now is not clear, blue skies.  Most people living here have probably forgot what a clear, blue sky looks like.  Look out - this years "Burn Season" is going to be a doozy.  My personal preference is the rainy season where I know the air is relatively clear.  With "Cool Season" comes inversion layers and with inversion layers come the smoke.  The PM 2.5 right now is anything but "Good."  But hey - look on the bright side - it's not violet or purple yet, only yellow, orange, and red!
https://aqicn.org/map/chiang-mai/

[novacova]

Cristal clear out there…

[Woke to Sounds of Horking]

The OP may well be enjoying this clear bright blue day, but beyond that he is delusional.

 

AQ has sucked - consistently - in CM since at least 2019.

 

That was the last time I did a long distance cycle of the area.

 

Wish it wasn't so, as I'd be planning to retire up there.

 

They lost my money but the package tourists from China don't care, so the offset.