Bangkok has balmy winter while Northern kids need sweaters

[snoop1130]

Bangkok has balmy winter while Northern kids need sweaters
By Coconuts Bangkok


A photo of students at Banpot Witthaya School, which is asking for donations of warm clothes. Photo: Facebook

BANGKOK -- This past week you might have felt a gentle breeze while waiting for the BTS in the morning, but it's not really the kind of weather that you need pet sweaters and gloves for.

This week Bangkok will continue to cool down with temperatures of between 22-34 degrees Celsius. It is expected to drop further after Christmas.

Meanwhile in the North, people are facing temperatures as low as 14 degrees Celsius on the ground and 5-10 degrees Celsius on the mountain top. Another high pressure from China will spread over the North this weekend, cooling down the region even more.

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-- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-12-21

[ratcatcher]

What did the parents of these cold little children do last year for their offspring? Sell their clothes in March?

[poohy]

Ah winter...................... didn't it come last year as well??

[White Christmas13]

I don't think I have to add anymore the two answers says it all

[manarak]

What did the parents of these cold little children do last year for their offspring? Sell their clothes in March?

yes. the government distributes a lot of clothes and blankets every year, which then find their way to the markets once the winter is over.

[Chicog]

A couple of chaps oop North died of hypothermia in the last few days (well, until they've done the autopsies at least).

[taony]

What did the parents of these cold little children do last year for their offspring? Sell their clothes in March?

yes. the government distributes a lot of clothes and blankets every year, which then find their way to the markets once the winter is over.

Well who buys them?

[Happy Grumpy]

What did the parents of these cold little children do last year for their offspring? Sell their clothes in March?

Ah winter...................... didn't it come last year as well??

Most of them stuff all the jackets and blankets etc. they are given each year into the roofs of houses as insulation.

[lee68]

Have you seen the blankets the government gives out, they are not exactly good quality, my wife's family in the mountains north of chiang mai get them,1 person needs about 5 of them, and i have never heard of anybody selling them,who would buy 2nd hand blankets? the fact is they just dont last long as there bad quality.

[crazygreg44]

This week Bangkok will continue to cool down with temperatures of between 22-34 degrees Celsius.

ahahahha, that's what I call a cold cold shower. 22- 34 Celsius being COOL !! I can't stop laughing !!!

they should really perform an experiment. Turn OFF all aircons in Bangkok for 5 days and let's watch temperatures drop like nothing

[crazygreg44]

Have you seen the blankets the government gives out, they are not exactly good quality, my wife's family in the mountains north of chiang mai get them,1 person needs about 5 of them, and i have never heard of anybody selling them,who would buy 2nd hand blankets? the fact is they just dont last long as there bad quality.

it's because they already sold all the blankets that were given to them in the previous winters

[RubbaJohnny]

One thing Siam is a Hun for

"PULLING THE WOOL OVER THEIR EYES'

Of course many were given winter clothes last year but sold them at Songkhran as the cold was over , for ever .....

[NongKhaiKid]

So the children at the featured school needs warm clothing yet are still made to sit on the ground in the open or is it excused by saying only for as long as it took to get the appropriate photo ?

[puukao]

This is crazy news!!!! Impossible to believe!!!!

Is Florida hot and Montana cold????

Hong Kong the same as Mongolia???

What is this Earth coming to?????

biggest news since they found out the Earth was round....

[Thian]

So the children at the featured school needs warm clothing yet are still made to sit on the ground in the open or is it excused by saying only for as long as it took to get the appropriate photo ?

Thai people ALWAYS sit on the ground.

I went into a lazyboy shop last weekend and the salesgirls were sitting on the floor while they had 20 new lazyboys around them...

[millwall_fan]

The 'cold' weather is a topic of endless conversation for Thais and Farang alike at this time of year. The much vaunted 'cool season' which for commercial purposes is billed at November to February, in reality only lasts from mid December to early February and does involve a noticeable drop in temperature: I left home in Bangkok on Sunday in a balmy 22 at night 32 in the day for Chilly Chiang Mai which was 16 this morning, and will slowly rise to 28-30 and then quickly drop again. My in laws are all dressed up in thick coats, woolly hats, scarves and gloves against the cold! I am still in shorts and T shirt - if only to show that we Brits aren't softies, but in reality after 10 years living in Thailand I'm perishing and will shortly don my increasingly threadbare Marks and Sparks woolly pully!!

Note to American contributors to TV: if you really want to hear a people obsessed with the weather, try Britain!!

I've often wondered why the Hill Tribes don't keep their winter woollies from year to year as I do. I like the insulation story above. Plausible.