I want to go for a bike ride today but I am still waiting for this fog to lift so I can see what the weather is going to be like today.

No fog down here, warm and clear.

Was thick as pea soup this morning and still hasn't burned off enough to see the mountains.

Hoping for a few main rains before the long dry season. Got thousands of baby trees that can use all the wet they can get.

No fog down here, warm and clear.

Thanks for the all clear. You got me out of the house at least 30 mins earlier than on my own. I was that long into my ride before patches of blue started showing up. On the way back it looked like I would ride into a wall of water if I continued down the 1020 toward Chiang Khong so cut my ride short at 59 km. No rain at home though and temps ranged from 27 to 34 during the ride.

Wearing a hoodie today and it is already 11:00

Wearing a hoodie today and it is already 11:00

Nice isn't it.

The thermometer was reading 21C this morning and is now 23 C inside. Colder outside with the cool breeze. No fans on today.

Wearing a hoodie today and it is already 11:00

Nice isn't it.

Good air, cool breeze, everything is green. The best time of the year.

I have only been here for 4 years. The last 2 days are the coldest temperatures I have experienced in October. How often does October experience these low temperatures? Where I came from if the thermometer fell below 20C during the day it was considered equivalent to be 0 C, ie bloody freezing

I have only been here for 4 years. The last 2 days are the coldest temperatures I have experienced in October. How often does October experience these low temperatures? Where I came from if the thermometer fell below 20C during the day it was considered equivalent to be 0 C, ie bloody freezing

It may have happened before, maybe 5 or 6 years ago, but I can’t remember for sure. It may have been November. The way I look at it, we don’t have a traditional winter based on latitude. What we get is cold fronts which dip down from China from time to time. Whether it is the jet stream or some other weather anomaly causing the cold to move south at any given time I don’t know.

We rest at roughly the same latitude as the Hawaiian Islands 19+ degrees, so the angle of the sun is almost identical in both places throughout the year. The ocean stabilizes things in Hawaii but being inland temperatures vary more in Chiang Rai and sometimes China blesses us with some chilly days.

I agree, these temps are quite a surprise for early October. 19 in my office this morning,

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday I did 73 km in the cold, mist and wind while it remained dark all day long. Today was absolutely beautiful and the light was amazing, not too hot yet either.

Wish it would rain some more. There's a shallow spot at Boomerang Park which always had about 1 foot of standing water up until February. Now it's almost dried up. If we get no more rain until May, ...mai dee.

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Battle of wits over the ongoing light drizzle here to day,

Vote tied on whether it's too wet for the morning walk.....

(Dog was for)

It is definitely too wet for dogs, cats and people where we are. The fish seem happy though.

It's got heavier here, even the dog's given up.

We seem to have rain approaching from the South.

I was reading about people dancing in the rain in Burma after the election and thought "well it's not raining here" looked out the back door and there it was on the way.

Went into town and there was about an hour's quite heavy rain just before lunch.

Yesterday's rain did the rice here no good at all.

Looks like more on the way as well.

Hope it did not do that to the MILs rice. She has little enough as it is.

The drive to town today was so beautiful but we have been stuck here at Rai Boon Rawd all afternoon waiting for the rain to stop. Not a bad place to be stuck though. I wonder if this will be the last rain of the year.

Raining at Singha Park yesterday.

The fog's hanging in for a long time up here today.

Woke up to a very thick fog this morning but it has burned off here already.

After a night of constant rain, today ended up being absolutely stunning. Beautiful weather today.

Down here in Phayao we had the rain all night with clouded conditions until lunch time. This afternoon we had sunshine but as soon as the sun disappeared behind the mountain range at 1715 the cold air returned.The temperature inside as I post is 23 and outside below 20.

It's been cool all day here, the overnight rain was obviously wide spread.

Air quality seems nice this time of year, though the same can't be said for Beijing. I'll never complain about Chiang Rai again