Cold spell affects mountain students in Nan province
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NAN, Dec 26 -- Temperatures keep dropping in the northern province of Nan, where seven districts have been declared cold-stricken areas.

Mountain pupils must exercise and study outdoors in the sunlight to keep themselves warm.

This situation happens at Ban Pon School in Pon sub-district of Thung Chang district.

Teachers led their students to exercise for 10 minutes after the morning national anthem and taught the young outdoors in a grassy field. Kewalin Iamklin, a 6-year-old pupil there, said the concrete school building was too cold in the morning for people to stay inside.

Prayong Saengsiriroj, acting director of the school, said morning temperatures dropped to 10-11 degrees Celsius at the 63 student primary school.

Teachers brought their students back to their classrooms late in the morning when the sunlight became stronger.

Some students had colds and took sick leave.

The seven districts declared cold-stricken areas are Chaloem Pra Kiat, Bo Kluea, Thung Chang, Chiang Klang, Pua, Tha Wang Pha and Song Khwae.

About 130,000 people need winter gear there. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-12-26

I think they mean Cool.......never Cold in Thailand

Terms like hot and cold, or even cool, are all relative and dependent on what you are accustomed to. Most Thais are like me, in that they have never lived in a snowy climate and if the thermometer gets down to single digits, they feel cold not cool. They feel cool when it is 34 and the fan is blowing on them. Again it is all relative.