Dear Folks,

During the past seven days, we have seen PM2.5 particulates reach over 400 on the AQI in some parts of Chiang Mai.

This season is shaping up to be more severe than the past two years, judging by the data this week, anyway.

During the past two years, the air quality was decent enough that wearing a respirator was almost more trouble than it was worth.

This week, however, I would not leave home without it (a good quality respirator).

We have still not reached the Dastardly Level, of the Smoking Season of five or six years ago, in 2019, I think it was. That year the air was Super-Thick.

My guess is that with the record-high air temps we are now experiencing, it will not be long until we also hit the Dastardly-Level AQI, at least for a week or two, a pleasure which I still so fondly recall during March and April of 2019.

When the AQI gets above the 500 level, then the sun turns orange, and our world loses color.

Aircraft become no-longer visible from the ground..And everything is brown.

Some days, I think I should have remained in New England, USA, with crisp autumn days, and the beauty of white-steepled churches on every street.

Have you seen what the Chiang Mai air is doing to the Moonlight, these days?

And, here is a nostalgic song from Smith College, where the Air is Clean...All the Time...

We shall overcome.

Thank you, 3M.

Regards,

Gamma

Note2:  This year, there is something new… I am now receiving PM2.5 Warnings on my Phone. Thanks for This….!!!

Note1: As of 9AM today, the air already looks like this. We are smokin’...!!!

Folks: I have an important question...

Earlier today, I received some sort of ALERT on my mobile phone.

The ALERT was written in passa Thai. I am a slow reader of Thai, because I do not practice reading Thai as much and as diligently as I know that I should.

Anyway, this ALERT was sent to my phone due to some wafting-in of BAD AIR, filled with many Microscopic PARTICLES of dust due to incineration of stubble, and ...

Other agricultural detritus, one imagines.

But, my question is:

Next time I get one of these ALERTS....then....

What should I do???

Earlier today, I had not a clue, as to what I should do.

There was nowhere to hide.

And there was nowhere to run.

Did you get a similar ALERT where you are, in CM?

And what did YOU do....

I just want to prepare for the next ALERT, is all....

Note2: Everything is Brown, these days....(But, I LOVE Brown, anyways....)

37 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

But, my question is:

Next time I get one of these ALERTS....then....

What should I do???

Stop polluting the atmosphere with your moronic posts!

We need government officials who are capable of dealing with this public health crisis.

Any ideas on how to get competent people into positions of authority?

2 minutes ago, TooPoopedToPop said:

We need government officials who are capable of dealing with this public health crisis.

Any ideas on how to get competent people into positions of authority?

NO

Any ideas how to change basic human nature, by the way?

There are great things about Human Nature: The Vandellas, for example.

And then, there is the Dark Side. (Not saying, of course, that I have anything against the Vandellas having dark skin.... Long Live....BROWN SUGAR....!!!!!)

13 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

NO

Any ideas how to change basic human nature, by the way?

There are great things about Human Nature: The Vandellas, for example.

And then, there is the Dark Side. (Not saying, of course, that I have anything against the Vandellas having dark skin.... Long Live....BROWN SUGAR....!!!!!)

I made the mistake of giving you a serious reply and you come back with this nonsense.

You sound like someone who has masturbated too much as a child.

Just now, TooPoopedToPop said:

I made the mistake of giving you a serious reply and you come back with this nonsense.

You sound like someone who has masterbated too much as a child.

a. True

b. Your Profile Photo is the spitting image of Freud, but without his signature cigar up his ass.

Dear Prudence,

The sky is grey.

So...

Won't you come out to play?

Won't you come out to play?

The sun is up.

The sky is blue.

The birds are depressed, and subdued, too.

9 hours ago, TooPoopedToPop said:

We need government officials who are capable of dealing with this public health crisis.

Any ideas on how to get competent people into positions of authority?

A good first step toward that goal would be a precipitous fall in tourist arrivals.

An economic meltdown would get action like nothing else.

As I type this the AQI in Chang Mai is 220 according to iqair.com. Currently rated worst in the world. Just above Delhi at 214.

1 hour ago, CMHomeboy78 said:

A good first step toward that goal would be a precipitous fall in tourist arrivals.

An economic meltdown would get action like nothing else.

Thailand has done more than any other other country in the region. Although they can do more, most of the pollution supposedly comes from Mynamar. Since they are currently fighting a civil war that is not going to change anytime soon.

8 minutes ago, shdmn said:

As I type this the AQI in Chang Mai is 220 according to iqair.com. Currently rated worst in the world. Just above Delhi at 214.

200 in Chiang Rai. I can actually smell the smoke outside my condo. Inside, 60 with only one of two air purifiers running.

A few years ago, it was 500. Both air purifiers full on were struggling to get below 100.

WAIT...:

I have recently noticed that if I switch my Weather App from Celsius to Fahrenheit, then it makes me feel about 10 degrees cooler.

Originally, I had thought that this could not be true.

But, it IS true.

So now, I have switched all my phone apps and desktop applications from the Swedish system to the Dutch system.

Please try this, because we are entering the HOT season, with temps going to over 103, probably often.

You will feel FAR cooler if you use the Dutch method.

For Example: Today, the local air temperature is predicted to reach about 101-degrees F.

But, I am still thinking in terms of only 37-degrees C.

Now, do you see?

They told me I might need to endure 101 degrees....but...in actuality....

I feel only 37 degrees.

And, it works.

This morning, I was so cold that I donned a winter coat, and it still felt chilly.

Unfortunately, there is NO WAY this same strategy will work to reduce PM2.5 concentrations in the air we breathe....but...

I am working on a similar solution for PM2.5 reduction, as well.

Yesterday, less than 50 Klicks away, the AQI hit 650, but that was an outlier, obviously.

5 hours ago, shdmn said:

Thailand has done more than any other other country in the region. Although they can do more, most of the pollution supposedly comes from Mynamar. Since they are currently fighting a civil war that is not going to change anytime soon.

When Thai officials are challenged as to why they're not doing more, they usually play the "Burmese card", or Laos, or Cambodia. Anything to divert attention from their own manifest incompetence.

If you think we're up against an impossible situation, just read up on how Singapore has dealt with toxic air pollution recently.

17 minutes ago, CMHomeboy78 said:

When Thai officials are challenged as to why they're not doing more, they usually play the "Burmese card", or Laos, or Cambodia. Anything to divert attention from their own manifest incompetence.

If you think we're up against an impossible situation, just read up on how Singapore has dealt with toxic air pollution recently.

Your comment, from a Science-Based-Perspective, is....nothing other than...RIDICULOUS....

a. Singapore is an island.

b. Thailand is part of some sort of continent....

c. Yes, of course, it might be possible to reduce the burning of stubble in Thailand, which could be a good thing.

d. However, solving the stubble-burning quandary in Thailand will not solve the air pollution from blowing in from other countries.

One just might wonder, for example, if you have ever been to the great municipality of Beijing.

Where does all that dust come from, the dust that invades the city of Beijing?

Do you think that Beijing produces all this dust, all by itself?????

Only a nitwit would accept such a boner idea.

You are not a boner, are you?

32 minutes ago, CMHomeboy78 said:

When Thai officials are challenged as to why they're not doing more, they usually play the "Burmese card", or Laos, or Cambodia. Anything to divert attention from their own manifest incompetence.

If you think we're up against an impossible situation, just read up on how Singapore has dealt with toxic air pollution recently.

I think you need to ...GO BACK TO SCHOOL......

Get an education, for example....

46 minutes ago, CMHomeboy78 said:

When Thai officials are challenged as to why they're not doing more, they usually play the "Burmese card", or Laos, or Cambodia. Anything to divert attention from their own manifest incompetence.

If you think we're up against an impossible situation, just read up on how Singapore has dealt with toxic air pollution recently.

It's not just Thais that say it. If you still need more proof, just look at a wind chart.

20 minutes ago, shdmn said:

It's not just Thais that say it. If you still need more proof, just look at a wind chart.

OK.

Please attach your wind chart.

Thank you.

17 hours ago, TooPoopedToPop said:

I made the mistake of giving you a serious reply and you come back with this nonsense.

You sound like someone who has masturbated too much as a child.

Theres several of them on here like that.
They also make these posts and can't stand that nobodys replied so they make the second, third reply so it doesn't fall off the front page.

1 hour ago, CMHomeboy78 said:

When Thai officials are challenged as to why they're not doing more, they usually play the "Burmese card", or Laos, or Cambodia. Anything to divert attention from their own manifest incompetence.

If you think we're up against an impossible situation, just read up on how Singapore has dealt with toxic air pollution recently.

Just how much wildfire smoke is coming in from other countries probably varies, depending on which way the wind blows.

Too much preoccupation with it is just a distraction from the main tasks at hand for Thai authorities, namely the suppression of agricultural burning and effectively fighting wildfires.

The efforts so far have been woefully inadequate.

Your reference to Singapore is spot on in regard to transnational smoke haze.

They went after international agribusinesses who were responsible for the burning on Sumatra and Borneo with sanctions and those tactics were successful.

56 minutes ago, DeaconJohn said:

Just how much wildfire smoke is coming in from other countries probably varies, depending on which way the wind blows.

Too much preoccupation with it is just a distraction from the main tasks at hand for Thai authorities, namely the suppression of agricultural burning and effectively fighting wildfires.

The efforts so far have been woefully inadequate.

Your reference to Singapore is spot on in regard to transnational smoke haze.

They went after international agribusinesses who were responsible for the burning on Sumatra and Borneo with sanctions and those tactics were successful.

So....

You are suggesting that Thailand GOES AFTER Burma?

You want a re-play of this?

16 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

So....

You are suggesting that Thailand GOES AFTER Burma?

You want a re-play of this?

So what is your solution to the problem!

Says I knowing that all we will get is a load of waffle!

1 hour ago, DeaconJohn said:

Just how much wildfire smoke is coming in from other countries probably varies, depending on which way the wind blows.

Too much preoccupation with it is just a distraction from the main tasks at hand for Thai authorities, namely the suppression of agricultural burning and effectively fighting wildfires.

The efforts so far have been woefully inadequate.

Your reference to Singapore is spot on in regard to transnational smoke haze.

They went after international agribusinesses who were responsible for the burning on Sumatra and Borneo with sanctions and those tactics were successful.

Guys from Singapore are SUPERMEN when it comes to making BLANKET-STATEMENTS, which are never true, of course, by definition.

You are just the type of guy from Singapore that I am referring to, and I have met a LOT of guys just like you.

Anyway, your blanket-absolutist-statement is not true.

You really need to get out more, from your insular colony.

So, do you even think that such a partially successful model would work for northern Thailand?

I KNOW that you know the answer.

13 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

So what is your solution to the problem!

Says I knowing that all we will get is a load of waffle!

a. For one, you should stop eating meat, and survive on soy protein. This might improve your attitude.

b. There actually is no solution, yet.

c. Any solution will require VERY BROAD understandings between the countries in this region.

d. Money will need to be paid to those who burn, in order to stop them burning.

e. It might also be possible to convert stubble, through anaerobic incineration, into char, which can be buried and help maintain a higher quality of farmland for crops.

But, as you might have guessed, I am not here to provide you with a solution concerning burning of stubble.

At the moment, I am advising Trump concerning two ways to exit from Iran without losing his face, or his hair.

Note: I would like to add that the only reason I suggested to you that you stop eating meat of the hoof is that you told me that you are NOT from Scotland....

If you were from Scotland, then I would have suggested that you stop eating trout.

9 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I KNOW that you know the answer.

What is YOUR answer?

1 minute ago, GammaGlobulin said:

At the moment, I am advising Trump concerning two ways to exit from Iran without losing his face, or his hair.

You are becoming a bigger liar than even Trump!

1 minute ago, scottiejohn said:

You are becoming a bigger liar than even Trump!

That would be nearly impossible.

9 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

. For one, you should stop eating meat, and survive on soy protein. This might improve your attitude.

Did you not start this thread in January? You sure were a meat eater then.

21 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

That would be nearly impossible.

Not in your case!

On 3/30/2026 at 8:19 PM, scottiejohn said:

Stop polluting the atmosphere with your moronic posts!

Still won't lower the PM2.5 concentration of the atmosphere, so not a good solution.