April may touch 43 degrees
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The temperature will rise to as high as 43 degrees Celsius next month, the Meteorological Department said. The cause for this is the unusually low number of clouds and less humidity, plus a heat mass moving to the Kingdom, posing the risk of more frequent tropical thunderstorms.

The average temperature in Bangkok will be 37-39 degrees.

Somchai Bai-muang, director general of the Meteorological Department, said the temperature has been steadily rising from mid-February and will probably prevail until mid-May, becoming particularly severe until April 3.

The North, Northeast and East will be more prone to thunderstorms, which could be more frequent and stronger than previous years.

Temperatures in many provinces has already hit the 40-degree mark, though it should not climb above 44.5 degrees Celsius.

-- The Nation 2013-03-30

You can't be in the weather business without being alarmist these days.

Hot season will be hot, maybe hotter than usual, but maybe not.

Every day last week I left work and the temp was either 39-40 on my car's temp thermometer. This is in Nonthaburi. So this article is of no surprise as it's already reaching those temps.

You can't be in the weather business without being alarmist these days.

Hot season will be hot, maybe hotter than usual, but maybe not.

My prediction will be that Thailand will have it's hottest to date this year and when the time comes the coldest and wettest seasons this year. I cant see why Thailand will be any different to any where else in the world. Australia had it's hottest weather for 50 years, its worst and still ongoing floods, its worst cyclone season and new ones currently forming today.

England, Europe, Canada and the USA the worst winter for god knows how long.

With the droughts in Thailand today, the place is turning already to sand in some areas, they don't need more baked soil and when the rains come it wont soak in it will run and fast. So Bangkok had better be ready for the worst floods yet. I read that Thailand, especially Bangkok is already below sea level in a lot of places and is sinking. It also has the problem of the oceans rising.

So if you think the Thai weather bureau are alarmists. All this info has been on the news and a lot is currently happening now.

OZmade is correct in that the weather patterns all around the globe have changed and we'd better get used to it, the destructive part is the telling factor, mini tornadoes, higher rain falls, floods, cyclones, hurricanes, in area's not seen before say something and whats happening here , the government of Thailand is trying to put more cars on the road and air pollution is the root cause of the problem

should it be wise to start buying roof panels before they start flying

we now get a bit of rain about 1 or 2 times a week so the soil isnt too dry

but indeed it can get hot and humid

Mukdahan N.E.

I think I'll move to a resort and live in the pool.

You can't be in the weather business without being alarmist these days.

Hot season will be hot, maybe hotter than usual, but maybe not.

Saying it might be slightly higher than it is already isn't been alarmist. The report is quite balanced. Sounds to be more like it's preparing people for very hot weather to continue. Nothing wrong with that.

Regular 36 to 38 degree days here in Phuket. It certainly feels hotter than past years but I originally put that down to getting older, however many locals also feel the same. Many of the wells are all but dry & water trucks are continuously operating. Authorities say we have enough water for 3 months & it may be true for those of us on government water but those dependent on concrete ring wells may not be so lucky.

You can't be in the weather business without being alarmist these days.

Hot season will be hot, maybe hotter than usual, but maybe not.

100% spot on!

Nothing...Texas has these type temperatures every summer....

Last winter was the hottest Bangkok winter I'd experienced. This yr NZ summer has bn prolonged, though much cooler than when I came to Auckland 42 yrs ago. I used to get dozens of mosquito bites in Feb. but seldom get one now.

And we should keep in mind reported temperature is always taken in the shade.

43 degrees Celsius is toasty indeed.

I remember working with some Japanese in Mt Isa in December 1990 when the temperature was 47 every day. 39-43? A walk in the park...

Every day last week I left work and the temp was either 39-40 on my car's temp thermometer. This is in Nonthaburi. So this article is of no surprise as it's already reaching those temps.

Same in Chiang Mai, driving home from work the car registered 39 outside temp. Our secretary was complaining about it.

43 degrees in April and the possibility of no electric starting 5 April to ?? Where I live no electric means no water and nothing to move the air inside the house (fans/air con). Might be a smelly month!

Every day last week I left work and the temp was either 39-40 on my car's temp thermometer. This is in Nonthaburi. So this article is of no surprise as it's already reaching those temps.

Same in Chiang Mai, driving home from work the car registered 39 outside temp. Our secretary was complaining about it.

Good on you for taking your secretary home in your car. Yes, I can see why it got hot in the car.

Now, back to the weather...

Remember when I worked in Kuwait a few years back the temp hit 56 C, now that was warm.

It hasn't been below 40c where we are in Isaan for a week, probably 2. Some years hot, some years not, but this one is definitely a hot one. As for thunderstorms, please bring it on, this place is like a desert at the moment.

You know we must all be English in this particular thread as we English are very enthusiastic about commenting on the weather you know

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde

I can tell you it's mighty warm here in Bahn Poo Sangkha in Surin, been averaging a steady +42.C. for the last week

spare a thought for the workers

- yesterday cycling on the way home from the beach (Chanthaburi), a stretch of new asphalt being laid - as I sweated past in shorts/t-shirt guzzling my chilled water, workers covered head-toe shoveling hot asphalt mix, the heat coming up off the new road was oven-like. I wouldn't last long working/dressed like that.

Local temp recorded at 39, must have been well into 40+ on that road.
I like the heat, decided I was made for a hot climate - but just not to work all day in it, outdoors.

I've read a science report in the past that said that when temperatures reach 37 degrees Celsius the crime rate is going down significantly. So at least there is a positive thing about it

It was 42 degrees in the shade at my house the other day so I think it has already arrived

^ dog crime drops too - ie chasing cyclists!

too darned hot, there are places that I have 'regulars' who lie in wait for bike riders, lately barely raise their heads as i go past - too much effort.

35º C on Samui.

spare a thought for the workers

- yesterday cycling on the way home from the beach (Chanthaburi), a stretch of new asphalt being laid - as I sweated past in shorts/t-shirt guzzling my chilled water, workers covered head-toe shoveling hot asphalt mix, the heat coming up off the new road was oven-like. I wouldn't last long working/dressed like that.

Local temp recorded at 39, must have been well into 40+ on that road.

I like the heat, decided I was made for a hot climate - but just not to work all day in it, outdoors.

Sure, only thing is if you are working in the sun all day, t-shirt and shorts aren't going to cut it. Because within minutes you could suffer sunburn, not to mention blisters (eventually) and even heat stroke...you have to dress up like a Taliban warrior in order to keep yourself protected from the sun if you are not going to be moving much and out in the sun all day like that. When I was a first year student picking cherries in the summer in Australia, I dressed the same...long pants, long sleeved shirt, t-shirt wrapped around my neck and over my head, sunglasses and hat, applied sunscreen on my exposed hands and still got burnt. This was in Young, NSW where it was 40 degrees + everyday in December that year.

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I think I'll move to a resort and live in the pool.

+1

I wouldn't want to be working in the mobile food vendor business during those termperatures

Nothing...Texas has these type temperatures every summer....

So do parts of Austraila, Africa and a few other place...whats your point ?