Temperatures above 40 degrees were already measured last week, this week will also be huffing and puffing. In Bangkok it will be 40 degrees or more in the coming days. And that is hard because there is usually not a breath of wind in this concrete jungle.
April does what he wants and in Thailand that is mainly to let the thermometer run up. If you still need tips against the heat, here they come:
- Drink plenty of water (1,5 – 2 litres/day).
- Avoid alcohol and sugary soft drinks as much as possible.
- Useful light meals.
- Find a spot in the shade in good time.
- Do not do strenuous exercise (between noon and 12.00 pm at high ozone concentrations.
- Lubricate the skin well to protect against burning (within fifteen minutes).
- Children and older people are more sensitive to extreme heat:
- Drink a glass of water in good time.
- Eat an ice cream.
- Take a (cold) foot bath.
- Ensure sufficient cooling inside (Airco and Fan).
- Contact each other regularly to ask how things are going.
- You can also cool down at home with a few tips:
- Lower the shutters or close the curtains.
- Only open windows and doors after sunset. Otherwise the heat will just come in.
- Make as little use as possible of appliances that dissipate heat
- Wet the (warmest) outside wall of your house. That can make a difference within a few degrees.
- In sunny and hot weather, there are also useful tips/points of attention for the car:
- Do not leave a child/animal alone.
- Do not immediately set the air conditioning in a hot car to the coldest setting. Well on lukewarm.
For the readers: Are you bothered by the heat? And and what do you do about it. Do you have any tips?
In my case there is also the following: occasionally spray water over and behind the compressor of the air conditioning outside, when the sun shines on it, otherwise it will die.
Probably the thermal protection is shutting it down.
I lived there for 4 years and am glad I left.
They are allowed to have the hot season and the rainy season.
Thailand in the cold season is doable, no, give me a Mediterranean climate like in Portugal.
If you have to sit inside the air conditioner because it is too hot, it will soon be like having to sit inside in Belgium during the winter because it is too cold. Nothing fun about it and not healthy either.
I think the most important thing is that you learn to live with the climate.
That's why I never bought an air conditioner and only use a fan and that for 16 years.
Of course it is sometimes hot and you take a shower more often.
Powder for cooling also works great before going to sleep.
And the alarm goes off at 5 am. Cup of coffee and then gardening or odd jobs.
After 11 o'clock I don't do much like that anymore, but I do stay outside.
And when the rain comes, you can enjoy the coolness and the animal sounds.
There has been no winter season this time, at least not in Banglamung near Pattaya. I have lived in Thailand for over 20 years and have never been so much apart from the heat as I am now. Everything you hold or sit somewhere is very hot, a fan doesn't help much either because it blows warm air, just like a hot air cannon. Aircon helps, of course, but it is difficult to lock yourself up all day with all doors and windows closed. You don't have to come and live in Thailand for that. Today it was a bit more bearable, hot but less humid and you can feel that. I constantly think about moving to Spain or Portugal, first trying to sell my house and my Thai wife coming along. Then I am also rid of that misery of money exchange and immigration hassles, etc. I am 55 so it has to happen now.
Regards.
If half in the Netherlands half in Thailand,
depending on which period the weather is most pleasant NL or TH..
That way you suffer less from the heat.
No visa problems, and good medical insurance
Problem solved.
This week someone had left a spray paint can in the car in the full sun. It exploded and the car burned out. The same thing happened with an overheated phone in the car in the full sun, same result.
Another car with a gas installation also burned out, but it is not certain whether this was due to the heat or a bad installation.
Last year I still found it unpleasant, but this year I can handle it much better. I even have the air conditioning on much less and spend more time outside (with a good fan) than in other years.
In the evening I also watch my TV series outside, which I project on the wall of the house via a projector and WiFi connection. It is cooler outside than at home.
Every two days I go cycling with friends and leave around 6:45 in the morning. Be home by half past ten. Take two bottles of water with me, which I almost always have empty, when I get home and also drink the necessary liters of chilled water at home, throughout the day.
At home I wear short, roomy sports shorts or swimming trunks.
Funnily enough, when we were in Bangkok on Saturday, I found it less hot than our home near Pranburi.
Since we have a car from the beginning of the year, it is of course more pleasant to drive than on a motorcycle, because of the air conditioning in the car.
So it may be warmer, I have adapted more to this heat and therefore experience less discomfort.
I moved a good 3 weeks (April 8) back from Jomtien to 30 km north of Uttaradit City due to flooding. Not a drop of rain here from that day on and not for the next 3 weeks either.
Temperature in the valley between the bare mountain slopes around 12 to 3 in the afternoon between 43 and 45 degrees.
That damn tree felling right here.
Everything here is bone and bone dry.
Groundwater is here at a depth of about 8 metres. But bananas, other fruit and teak are having a hard time. The corn is nothing more than brown leaves.
Prediction for at least 3 to 4 weeks the same
To keep the house in Uttaradit cool around the house tall trees. Shade the roof almost all day long. Makes a HUGE difference with, for example, the neighbors who don't have it. (they find the leaves difficult?). Planned to do it now. By now I also mean NOW.
Furthermore, if it is really hot in the evening, spray the roof wet. Have a hose on the ridge strip with (Gardena) spray nozzles. In the bedroom when we go to sleep from about 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. the air conditioner is on then automatically off.
Get up at 5.30 to have a drink in the toilet and then until 11 or 12 in the garden. Siesta until about 3 o'clock. Also a lot outside in the back of the garden in the shade. Liters an average of 3 to 4 liters of water per day. Not fresh almost (it used to be). But often hot ginger lemon honey tea,
Just say don't worry too much and get out of the sun on time.
Or in the afternoon to the food court in the tesco or the lotus. have free air con.
Eh the pen was still wet
According to Weeronline it would remain dry
Well what is called dry. At 21.20 it started to blow and at 21.30 to pour.
So far everything is functional, including the electricity. It makes a difference that many trees are without leaves here.
A REAL tropical downpour. The street is already empty.
The storm is 1 to 3 km from here hangs against the mountains to Phrae
Set all air conditioners in your house to maximum! Costs a little, but less than the CV at full power.
Narathiwat in the Muslim deep south is a wonderful place to be during the warm season. With us the temperature only rises to about 35 degrees and not those extreme values as elsewhere. I would like to tell the readers: come south!
Have been to Thailand from mid-January to the end of March and to Cambodia for two weeks, we have never had it so hot and not a drop of rain, climate is changing
I just got a reminder from Facebook about the home thermometer I posted three years ago and what do I see there? 40 degrees… so nothing new under the sun!