Twenty thousand days in Bangkok

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Showing posts with label Bangkok. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bangkok. Show all posts
Sunday, March 19, 2017

Hot Season brings miserable hot wet wind from the sea

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Much like the Texas Gulf, onshore hot season wind smothers Bangkok with heat and humidity. Even at the coolest time of the day the saturate...
Monday, April 20, 2015

2015 a moderate hot season so far

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Notwithstanding some excited tourist twitters on the subject, I fail to find anything special about hot season heat this year. In fact early...

2015 a moderate hot season so far

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Notwithstanding some excited tourist twitters on the subject, I fail to find anything special about hot season heat this year. In fact early...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

A wet pillow last night

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This is my idea of the time to turn on an air conditioner, when you begin to sweat into your pillow in the middle of the night. Turns out th...

A wet pillow last night

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This is my idea of the time to turn on an air conditioner, when you begin to sweat into your pillow in the middle of the night. Turns out th...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Torrid weather on the way

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According to the Thai Meteorological Department, this weeks fresh northerly breezes and rare thunderstorms will yield to an oppressive wave ...

Torrid weather on the way

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According to the Thai Meteorological Department, this weeks fresh northerly breezes and rare thunderstorms will yield to an oppressive wave ...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Sleep without aircon

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My (Thai) wife not using air conditioning at night late this week (in the Bangkok hot season) when midweek freak rains (causing serious loca...

Sleep without aircon

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My (Thai) wife not using air conditioning at night late this week (in the Bangkok hot season) when midweek freak rains (causing serious loca...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Mango shower

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Yesterday the gathering 95F heat broke with a pleasant morning "mango shower", first of the year, which kept skies gray and temps ...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Bangkok flooding with hot humid air

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Yesterday Bangkok smothered in humidity. Long slog of the hot season arrives.
Monday, January 20, 2014

Twenty thousand days at Don Muang

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This graphic shows the average daily temp at Don Muang since 1951 (top to bottom). Courtesy of the Thai Meteorology Department.  Values to...
Friday, January 17, 2014

In Thailand a Man Needs Three Things

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A little background here. When I came back to live in Thailand fifteen years ago, I decided to do what Jim Thompson had done in the 1940s, m...

In Thailand a Man Needs Three Things

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A little background here. When I came back to live in Thailand fifteen years ago, I decided to do what Jim Thompson had done in the 1940s,...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Where did hot poverty-stricken Thailand go?

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Wandering mid day through the sparkling Srinakharinwirot University which seems as luxurious as Stanford. What happened to the Third Worl...
Monday, January 6, 2014

Global Warming in Bangkok? Take a second look

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For years we have been seeing graphs like this one for Bangkok, showing how the city is going to get insufferably hot in the coming year...