Snow In Thailand

[Litlos]

It was the irony, on the face of it, that struck me too. Just can't find the source.

Found a reference in Phuket Info blogsite. Was about 10th Dec 2004 and the person was Swedish. http://www.phuket-info.com/forums/general/4705-swedish-tourist-found-frozen-death-thailand.html

Also found other references due to death by exposure around the CM area. Note to self, avoid CM as I do not like being cold.

Cheers

[Big Gary]

It was about 20 years ago in December when I came home to my village Hong Au at about 2am and when I got off my little Dream my Hair and Eyebrows were frozen solid. I had on a big jacket and gloves and was full of Mekong so everything else was ok. In the morning all my lawn was covered in frost and I picked up my garden hose and "snapped" it into pieces as it was frozen solid. Bloody cold.

[Limbo]

Those pictures from the 50's are snow, not hail. Hail doesn't sit on a slanted roof, but snow will.

Thanks Canuckamuck for contributing to this thread!

I'm sure not the only one who is curious to see your pictures of snow sitting

on slanted roofs in Chiang Rai my dear Canuckamuck. I'm afraid though that you

emitted to attach them.

The roofs we see on Konjianghai pictures show neither hail nor snow at least

not on those that are visible on them. Could there be some mistake?

Are your pictures maybe taken of other roofs in Chiang Rai or in another year?

I think your material is unique, please share it with us!

I have been talking many years ago about Konjianghai's photo's with older citizens

of Chiang Rai and they remembered this rather unique moment in the climatological

history of Chiang Rai very well.

They told me, to my great disappointment, that is wasn't snow but hail.

That's why your pictures really will add something to Chiang Rai history.

Please Canuckamuck, share them with us!

Limbo

[JAG]

We had a huge hailstorm in Wiang Chiangrung a few years ago. It looked just like it had snowed, but only lasted about 10 minutes before it had melted. Look on the Thais faces were priceless!

[canuckamuck]

Hi Limbo

Actually I don't have different photos, but I did blow up the poor quality ones that we have all seen. To me it looks like snow on the rooftops in places where hail should roll off. But I am only giving my opinion. See for your self.

[rmacdon61]

Ah snow, right up there with going to the dentist eh?

[phaethon]

Thanks Litlos, glad to know I wasn't imagining things.

The original report was in aSwedish paper, still available online:

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article251999.ab

Google does a respectable job of translating, but there the trail ends - we have to take the police verdict of 'frozen to death'.

[brianmarinus]

I dont know about snow in this area-but I have been her 2 and a half year,and I am sure that I have seen 3 times,that some one is dead by the cold weather here-and if I remember right,it was 2 last year.

It was at that time where also over 200 cows died down in Chiang Mai,when it falls to-I think it was around 7Celcius.

And thise things I am sure I saw here on thaivisa.

[Deserted]

It snowed in Vietnam a few years ago.

[Limbo]

Hi Limbo

Actually I don't have different photos, but I did blow up the poor quality ones that we have all seen. To me it looks like snow on the rooftops in places where hail should roll off. But I am only giving my opinion. See for your self.

Thanks Canuckamuck for the great work done! Now I also doubt again.

You are right, it really looks like snow, but what bothers me is

that some older Chiangrai people told me it wasn't.

Though judging from the picture I now also tend to see snow.

I was told that all the kids went crazy that day and tried to eat as

much as possible of it. It was a sensation for them as very few people

had electricity and of those who had, even less had a fridge.

Ice was still a miracle.

My source even recalled that many children were sick next day ...

A fate that during the yearly switch to cold weather, now we anyhow are

talking about it, in our days also treathens all muscular foreigners of

Chiang Rai, at least those among them that preferably walk around in

undershirts without sleaves. 'Sua kamm' (don't take the spelling serious),

or 'shirt muscles' is wat they are called by our Thai fellow citizens.

So therefore I would like to advise my muscular foreign fellow citizens or

to start wearing shirts with sleaves or at least to start taking 1000 milligram

vitamine C every day, just to keep the doctor away!

Limbo

PS: the last big hail fell about seven years ago. A lot of cars were damaged.

Edit: I just realize that now also the text is better readable. I wonder if there

a further explanation is given.

Edited November 13, 2011 by Limbo

[mumbojumbo]

I have seen hail several times here. It was never in December, and not that cold. It was in the summer, where the temp was extremely hot during the day, and late afternoon a black cloud would roll through, dropping the temp drastically fast, and marbles appear.

[toybits]

Doi Chang Hail Storm (Oct 2009). Sure did wonders for the coffee crop at Doi Chang that year. A got hese photos from an office mate.

[Limbo]

Doi Chang Hail Storm (Oct 2009). Sure did wonders for the coffee crop at Doi Chang that year. A got hese photos from an office mate.

Fun to see somebody walking around on flipflops and with summer clothes

in a winter landscape!

Great pics, thanks!

Limbo

[Jessada]

I was in 10 cm of snow yesterday just outside of Vancouver, BC. Currently 4 degrees in Chilliwack (one hour outside of Vancouver). Can't wait to be in CR at the end of March!!