Twenty thousand days in Bangkok

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Sunday, April 30, 2017

A fiery April ascendancy of the sun

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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...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Creeping heat shown by Netatmo module station 17th floor condo.

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6 am temperatures on Sukhumvit, Bangkok over the past 10 days Based on a 50-year stay in Thailand and study of long-term records I have...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Netatmo map this morning predicts daily discomfort

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We approach (in 7 days) the maximum direct solar heating of the year at latitude 13.75 (BKK) with the prospect of encountering this year t...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Fan at low setting cuts heat discomfort by four degrees

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This graphic is from a study by Joseph Khedari done in Thailand with Thai students. With humidity in Bangkok in the hot season at 70 percen...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

Take a bath in front of the whole neighborhood

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That's what my wife does in her Southern Thai village, doesn't think a thing of it, carrying on several conversations at once...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Bangkok hot season: coolest spot around

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Almost everyone is amazed at the coolness of the sky, shown here as 16 degC (61F) on a hot humid Bangkok day (dew point 25C) when the air te...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Complex thermal comfort data needs colorful solutions!

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Operating a bedroom air conditioner to get the best comfort at the least cost is a lot more complicated and non-intuitive than most of us (...