A fiery April ascendancy of the sun

A noon without shadows, April 26

Now at the end of April last week the sun reached its noon zenith over the city of Bangkok. The morning 6 am temperature never dropped below 30 C -- possibly a record high in an era of ascending thermal discomfort. The temperature on my bedroom air conditioning thermostat, hardly ever different than the 29 C that drives me to flip the switch on at night, actually now tends to read 30 C, a level I never remember seeing before. My neighbor's walls are slightly cool to the touch, about 27, indicating that they, to my benefit, are using their air conditioning, holding room temperatures to about 25 which is the usual here in Thailand (though the government is trying to get people to raise their set temperatures to 26.)