Hot Season brings miserable hot wet wind from the sea

Much like the Texas Gulf, onshore hot season wind smothers Bangkok with heat and humidity. Even at the coolest time of the day the saturated air from the gulf to the south is close to 29C (surface sea temp, red), so sweat at body temperature will provide little cooling.

Old time hot days in Boston

From the free download chapter

We are much inclined to think that air conditioning is a necessity, but I have to wonder these days whether this and much of the other technology said to be so wonderful is really important at all. I think of the days old people in Boston used to call scorchers, though my mother preferred the ancient term dog days. On those canicules my grandmother would take me on the streetcar from her walk-up South Huntington Avenue apartment in Jamaica Plain downtown to the Boston Common. I still enjoy looking at the details in this photo, the necktie, the newspaper. Was this man a bum? An unemployed veteran? If so, he made an effort to dress properly. Or was he just a lower paid adjuster from one of the insurance companies that dominated the skyline, lacking in those days even the first John Hancock building behind the Boston Common? 

My Thai wife in her bedroom not minding 29 C (84F)

Generally I have not put much credibility on theories of racial differences for thermal comfort. My Thai wife's comments, sweat thresholds, and complaints are very close to my own. But as the hot season closes this year in I notice that I am turning on the aircon every night when the temp hits about 29 C (84F). She is not. Be interesting to see when she does.

My Netatmo readying for the coming blast of heat

With seriously high temperatures last week forcing me to turn on the aircon for sleeping, I ready my Netatmo system for the expected record blast of heat next month.

Hot season relentlessly moving in. New records for Bangkok?

@Netatmo @dickmeehan Checking out my Netatmo gear for the coming heat. Perfect performance to date, looking forward to recording rich data in and outside my Bangkok condo tropicalcool.com

Fire up the Netatmo, the heat is coming!

Weather unsettled of late, Bangkok breaking free of the cool northerly breezes and succumbing to the steady southern winds off the steamy Gulf of Thailand (once known as the Gulf of Siam). A bit of rain of late.


Thai wife turns on the aircon last night. Muttering on the streets of hot weather. Must fire up Netatmo and buy another module for the coming heat. 


If this usually reliable guy is right, could be an interesting year.

Netatmo slaves and sniffs away all day

My Netatmo weather station bravely faces the Bangkok morning sun. All day and into the night it toils away collecting data every five minutes even how much CO2 we emit in bed.