Coming down heavily here now.

Just started here


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It is starting to warm up. Still cool in the mornings but the smoke haze is starting to encroach.

whether in Chiang Rai, ......or not....

How bad is the smog so far this year? 

6 hours ago, SoilSpoil said:

How bad is the smog so far this year? 

Mountains in distance not clear like in January; but weather up here supposedly not as polluted this year.  However, for the past 2 weeks I've had a never ending cough & mild headaches which I'm 100% sure is related to the underlying small particles in bad air.  Same thing happens to me every March up here.

I would say so far the air has been very good this year, relative to the last few. 

Anyone get any weather lately? It tried to rain here the other day. Air quality is still non fatal.

53 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

Anyone get any weather lately? It tried to rain here the other day. Air quality is still non fatal.

Early this morning it looked like rain but nothing eventuated. My biggest surprise was the lack of smoke haze today. It was great.

H E A T W A V E !

 

.......and not Martha and the Vandellas type.

Yes ,its certainly warming up !


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                    Yesterday & today, we're getting the type of windy rain lasting half hour (late afternoon) which we usually get in May, at beginning of monsoon season.  So, not only is spring sprung earlier each successive year (flowering and fruiting about a week earlier each year), but so is are windiest storms earlier.    It's all fine with me.  I love storms, .....unless a tree falls on me (or someone) or someone's house, which has happened in years past.

 

              Sonkran in 2.5 weeks away and I dread it.   I thought to get away by going to southern Thailand or Burma or Cambodia or Laos, but the insanity spreads to those places also.  I wouldn't mind Songkran if it lasted 1 to 3 days, and/or just involved youngsters.   The problem is, it sucks everyone in, so there are more injuries, more fatalities, more people drenched, when they show up for work, more ruined cameras/phones, more ruined vacations, more infections/pink eye from dirty water.  

 

          Yes, every year, there are letters to the editor of the Post and Nation which tell about tourists coming here, stepping outside their hotel on their first foray into Thailand, getting accosted with a bucket of water thrown full force by a strong young laughing man (they're everywhere), and then the tourist(s) leaving the next day, swearing never to set foot in Thailand again.  And they're the lucky ones.   The unlucky ones are those who are thrown off their motorbikes and either seriously injured or killed.

 

         I was driving my pick up once, with 3 little girls in the front seat alongside.   Their window was open (it was 2 days before Songkran officially started).  The girls saw the strong young man with a bucket full of water and were quick enough to duck.  I didn't see it coming, so I got hit broadside on the left side of my face with 35 lbs of water.  I nearly swerved off the road into a tree.  It would have been horrible - if the 3 girls got killed.   Instead, I was able to pull over and stop, and nursed a nearly punctured eardrum for 17 minutes.   

 

Yippee Songkran!!!!   Just hope it's not your son or daughter who becomes one of the 345 people killed this year during the festivities.

10 minutes ago, boomerangutang said:

                    Yesterday & today, we're getting the type of windy rain lasting half hour (late afternoon) which we usually get in May, at beginning of monsoon season.  So, not only is spring sprung earlier each successive year (flowering and fruiting about a week earlier each year), but so is are windiest storms earlier.    It's all fine with me.  I love storms, .....unless a tree falls on me (or someone) or someone's house, which has happened in years past.

 

              Sonkran in 2.5 weeks away and I dread it.   I thought to get away by going to southern Thailand or Burma or Cambodia or Laos, but the insanity spreads to those places also.  I wouldn't mind Songkran if it lasted 1 to 3 days, and/or just involved youngsters.   The problem is, it sucks everyone in, so there are more injuries, more fatalities, more people drenched, when they show up for work, more ruined cameras/phones, more ruined vacations, more infections/pink eye from dirty water.  

 

          Yes, every year, there are letters to the editor of the Post and Nation which tell about tourists coming here, stepping outside their hotel on their first foray into Thailand, getting accosted with a bucket of water thrown full force by a strong young laughing man (they're everywhere), and then the tourist(s) leaving the next day, swearing never to set foot in Thailand again.  And they're the lucky ones.   The unlucky ones are those who are thrown off their motorbikes and either seriously injured or killed.

 

         I was driving my pick up once, with 3 little girls in the front seat alongside.   Their window was open (it was 2 days before Songkran officially started).  The girls saw the strong young man with a bucket full of water and were quick enough to duck.  I didn't see it coming, so I got hit broadside on the left side of my face with 35 lbs of water.  I nearly swerved off the road into a tree.  It would have been horrible - if the 3 girls got killed.   Instead, I was able to pull over and stop, and nursed a nearly punctured eardrum for 17 minutes.   

 

Yippee Songkran!!!!   Just hope it's not your son or daughter who becomes one of the 345 people killed this year during the festivities.

Sonkran in 2.5 weeks away and I dread it.

 

Songkran is 1 week and 2 days away. It officially start on 13th April 2017

The last 2 days we have had big winds from the north late in the afternoon. We have also had some rain. Today the outside temperature dropped to 21 degrees C. 

It rained for hours here 2 days ago. And twice today. The one at 3:00 was absolutely torrential.
It's good news for me. No more irrigating the tea this year. I can get on to some more interesting pursuits

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Hot season was quite merciful this year. Rain every few days now, about a month ahead of last year. Air was pretty good most days. 

The horror of last year's drought is all but forgotten.

A great storm this afternoon about 1730. Big winds before the rain. The lightning was impressive. It lasted about an hour.  When finished the smoke haze had disappeared. 

Heavy rain in Phayao today. It lasted about 5 hours. We were in town about 8am and there was some water across the roads then. We were heading to Chiang Rai but changed our minds and returned home. I have seen photos of flooding at the bus station and near the Phayao Ram Hospital. If travelling through Phayao be careful.

What is like in June as I will be up there soon... Especially by the Mae Fae Luang University Area?  Thanks

 

What happened to the rain, June has been really dry, even the town water has dried up.

What a beautiful day. Plenty of rain on and off with sunshine in between. It has now rained continually since about 4 pm. Some was heavy but now is light. Temperature this afternoon was 25 C . Great to sit out on the balcony with a cold beer in hand and watch the rain.

On 7/15/2017 at 9:02 PM, ripstanley said:

What a beautiful day. Plenty of rain on and off with sunshine in between. It has now rained continually since about 4 pm. Some was heavy but now is light. Temperature this afternoon was 25 C . Great to sit out on the balcony with a cold beer in hand and watch the rain.

And listen to it

What a beautiful morning. A clear sky, cool breeze and only 20 degrees.

It is the coldest November day I have experienced since moving here 6 years ago. Maximum temperature was 21 C. Overcast all day with a cold northerly breeze.

Heaters on up here.

Quite a bit of rain earlier as well.

The cold nights will see the local fauna trying to invade houses for a bit of warmth and food, the new pussy cat is on top of it though and had a good haul last night.

 

 

 

 

 

Freezing here this morning, I was up early and it took a while to warm the house up.

8 degrees  here this morning, got the fireplace going by 5. Going to use a lot of wood this year.

On 12/4/2017 at 4:57 AM, sceadugenga said:

The cold nights will see the local fauna trying to invade houses for a bit of warmth and food, the new pussy cat is on top of it though and had a good haul last night.

 

 

 

 

 

my two dogs are getting quite skilled at getting rats, mice and snakes. My wife tells me they've been rather busy the last week or so. :)

It's my bloody neighbors in the village - all of them burning their grass, leaves, and other debris in Chiang Rai that's all. :(((((