Dear readers,
It will be hot to very hot in the coming weeks, as is usual in Thailand. With here and there a thunderclap and a heavy downpour. Plus that a high pressure system from China will have an extra influence on the weather in the coming days. The feeling temperatures are well above 40 degrees C.
The health ministry warns against sunstroke, which causes headaches, nausea and dehydration. In a more severe degree to delirium, coma and finally death. Don't work or go to the gym for too long in the full sun. And drink at least one liter of water every hour. Pregnant women, children, the elderly and obese, among others, should be careful.
Old and obese are characteristics of retirees. Although the reverse is not always true. Still, it is nice to know how this category deals with the consequences of the prevailing heat. Does the air conditioner run all day long, or do you buy an even bigger fan, a sprinkler system on the roof, or a children's pool in the garden?
And another important question: can that high (perceived) temperature still be called comfortable?
Don't report that an extra liter of chilled beer is being knocked back, because I believe so, but really what they do to keep the hot weather bearable.
And if it's not fun anymore, report this honestly!
Thanks and fr. greeting,
Thank you
KEEP SIESTA.
Like the summers in cities like Seville, Cordoba, etc. in southern Spain, having a siesta in the afternoon, having an afternoon nap, keeping it in shady places and getting up early around 5 am to go to the local market to buy food and have it for Prepare 10 o'clock in the morning. Possibly spray the plants in your garden at sunset and take a cold shower several times a day.
Around Songkran it does get a few degrees cooler and you can spray each other with water with or without ice cubes. That's how you get through the day.
Drinking a liter of water per hour is only half the advice and if things go wrong you will be in the hospital at the end of the day on a drip.
You will also have to take salt with all that water.
A sprinkler system on the roof does not seem useful in my case, because there has been no water coming out of the tap for months.
In my case, the air conditioner runs all day.
My house is sufficiently insulated, so I don't have to worry about the costs of electricity.
And yes, when it's as hot as it is now, I also indulge in beer.
Then I buy a can of Leo at about six o'clock.
Drinking only water will give you a full belly, but you will keep a dry throat with this heat.
Bullshit, you already get enough salt, you don't need that extra, it's already enough in the food you consume over the day and even then it's too much salt. Never been on an IV. The disadvantage is that you have to urinate a bit more often, but you have to urinate much more often from the beer.
Keeping a dry throat from the water is also nonsense, is no more than a disguised excuse to indulge in that beer.
Oops Sir Charles, Ruud's reaction was funny though! Of course, if you think you should appoint him as your personal physician, you are right! Do not!!! I am interested in taking him as a doctor! It turns out to be excellent against acidification and not only for the kidneys! 😉
Yes Oh Charles,
I also thought not to take extra salt , I had never had a problem before , but now , now I had it ! And how ! A hypo! straight to the hospital and on an IV all day, the doctor insisted that I should definitely take extra salt, especially now that I am sixty, my body needs that more.
I rarely ate chips and other salty foods , after all that is unhealthy in our countries , but now on doctor 's advice beer with chips and peanuts !
Yes, so as the doctor confirms my point of view, it is already more than enough in the food to which chips and peanuts can also be included for the sake of convenience.
Drinking water in Thailand contains very little salt. That's why I buy and drink mineral water, also because it contains more than just table salt. Because I often find that mineral water a bit too salty, I dilute it with drinking water.
Chips and peanuts are therefore not necessary. Ordinary Thai food is also usually salty enough. But on very hot days when a lot of drinking is necessary, it is better to also use mineral water.
My airo is doing well and doing as little as possible.
Surf the internet and watch a movie.
Getting 6 cans of Leo every hour seems like a better plan, but you can't keep that up either
Although I am not yet entitled to state pension, I know the problem. I have to say that since I lost fifty kilos last year, I can tolerate the high temperatures a lot better.
As of February 1, both my husband and I are taking early retirement. 4 days after my farewell reception we were on the plane for 3 months wintering in Chiang Mai. Normally we always go to Thailand in October, November, but due to my rather sudden early retirement we decided to go away for another 3 months this winter. That also means the hot months of March and April, but we knew that in advance. It was also a great opportunity for us to experience Songkran.
How do we spend the hot days? Have fun with the car! Air conditioning and music on and a nice drive in the area, a nice lunch somewhere and a coffee somewhere in the afternoon. When you return home, a nice cold beer at the pool of our apartment complex. By a quarter to six o'clock the sun from the balcony and we sit outside for the rest of the day!
We also always go to changmai for a month in Feb. Maybe a strange question where do you rent the app I would also like a little longer. Have fun in changmai. I hope you can answer my question.
Marijke, We rent a serviced apartment, so with cleaning, linen, etc.
There are many in CM in various price ranges and in various locations. The advantage is that you have much more space than in a hotel or studio and you do not have to bring towels and linen. I advise you to go and see it first, because photos on the website sometimes turn out to be much nicer than it actually is. Good luck!
At the moment it is 42 degrees here in the Isaan in the shade, and it is too hot to do anything.
From the previous years I have learned not to use the air conditioning during the day, then you have to stay indoors as long as possible, because as soon as you go outside, you run into a wall of heat, and having gone in and out several times, the water runs out of my nose, and I start to get a cold.
So keep me as calm as possible, have a fan everywhere, even two pieces towards the sofa. read E books on my tablet, sit on the internet, play on spelpunt.nl, in the evening I go shopping, drink water, but also a lot of tea, and then sit outside after sunset, to recover from the current too hot days, and hope that it will soon be cooler, but what do we want? walking, in only boxer shorts. or with a thick coat and hat, then give me the boxer shorts.
“walk, in only boxer shorts. or with a thick coat and hat, then give me the boxer shorts”.
You can't do much against the heat against the cold, so give me the present winter, which you can no longer call a real winter. Have ever experienced minus 25 degrees, so then we speak of a real winter.
Don't worry yourself drink a lot and lie by the pool if there is one or at home for the arco or fan
How to survive the hot period in Thailand. Good question!
Of course, everyone who has settled here will answer that in their own way, so everyone has their own opinion about it.
Before I emigrated to Thailand, I looked around for 15 years and looked around in many countries not only in Thailand but also in Europe. The decisive factor for me was the healthcare in Thailand, which looked much better than what I found in countries such as France, Spain and Italy.
Then I realized that after 27 years in Belgium and before that the Netherlands I would find a completely different climate here. And regularly going on holiday to Thailand is different from settling there permanently. But where we are confronted with very high temperatures here in the warm period, it is sometimes only possible to organize a BBQ in the garden a few times a year in the Netherlands and Belgium.
In other words, the warmth and the perception of it is also partly between the ears, I deliberately chose that.
I am lucky enough to have a nice big house just outside of Chiang Mai with an air conditioner in every room, upstairs and downstairs, but we never use it during the day. We have made a partition wall in the living room and when we watch TV in the evening – only in the warm period – we close it and set the air conditioning to 25 degrees.
An hour before we go to sleep we turn on the air conditioning in the bedroom and it is set at 23 degrees.
We have replaced the windows throughout the house and there are now special sun-resistant glass in them and I just look at the indoor/outdoor thermometer and outside it is 38 degrees and inside "only" 32.
Read an excellent advice on Thailand blog, get up early because then it's still relatively cool. Live right on a small lake and the morning is set aside for a walk (cup of coffee in hand) with our dogs where I then watch the sun rise.
Another piece of advice, so drink a lot! My wife and I consume a case of soda water every two days. Very often a mix of soda water with a squeezed lemon and a small dash of honey in it. Of course with a few ice cubes. Every day I take a “cold” shower once or twice (except in the early morning).
Been going to private Thai lessons 5 days a week for two years now, so I'm pretty busy for my 73 years. In other words, no time to get bored, although I catch myself closing my eyes after lunch in an easy chair, of course in the shade, even though I am not allowed to sleep during the day.
Of course like to drink a beer at home in the evening. For enthusiasts, regularly get my Belgian beer just across the border from Mae Sai – Tachilek. Leffe Blond or Tongerlo, 75 bath per bottle.
Indeed, almost Songkran, the opportunity to lock ourselves up at home. Chiang Mai, I would almost say the birthplace of this horrible event where all hotel rooms are full and more fatal accidents occur in a few days than in the Netherlands and Belgium combined in two years.
Then learn and see what the Thais are really like and that is not meant negatively. But after 17 years of being here permanently, I think I have some right to speak. The dreams are over and I'm reading in a world of reality. But as I also read a lot, after a week in the Netherlands I am happy to be back in Chiang Mai with all the positive but also negative things, but I already knew that before I came here. For anyone who is thinking of coming here, put two feet on the ground and first take a look at how things are going here and read many stories on this Blog and take out what applies. Finally, if you come here young you should realize that there will also be a time when you will get older and that time must also be filled in in advance, not only materially (financially) but also between the ears.
Another point about health care in Thailand. Much has been written about the high premiums of the UNIVE, among others. Have had three surgeries in two years now. Not life-threatening, but still serious. Then you are lucky to have a good insurance behind you, which gave me, for example, the best room in the Chiang Mai RAM hospital. Cost? An example. Last Saturday I underwent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome surgery. I had to pay an amount of 324 € for the entire treatment (surgery). Googling taught me that € 2100 must be paid for the same treatment in the Netherlands. Of course I reported this to the UNIVE because when the premium was increased it was assumed that the costs abroad would be much higher than in the Netherlands.
Just off the cuff of an old servant.
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YES, THE HOTEST TIME.
For people who do not (or cannot) drink much, I recommend adding a sachet of STRUNK to a large glass of water.
This is a must for people going to the tropics.
Every other day for the elderly.
A fan on the body, especially when it is sweaty, is an invitation to a generous cold.
A siesta in a cooled bedroom is also very invigorating.
You don't need to have the air conditioner on all the time.
But with us in the PC room and bedroom, a wonderful air conditioning.
Sonkran, I do a lot of shopping for that and we are no longer seen outside with that folly.
Although, my husband goes for an afternoon with a number of “crazed” Dutch people on the terrace for a beer and then comes home as a white drowned cat.
Well, you won't see me and go cook, read, internet, etc..
LOUISE
In the morning it is manageable in the shade. around 12 o'clock I ask my brother-in-law to take me to the swimming pool and pick me up again at half past five. this is in Thepsathit, 600 meters from our house. a whole new swimming paradise was built there last year. when I come back the sun has just set and I can sit outside in the shade and have a drink (no beer)
Sit inside with the air conditioner on.
Don't go out and drink cool drinks.
Protect your body from the heat, so you can't go outside for long without a headgear.
It's too hot to do anything.
People are easily irritable and easily angry.
Headache and poor sleep.
I think this is the worst 3 months of the year.
Winter and rainy season is OK.
Oh, a problem? Here in Ubon the football season started again two weeks ago. There is no football during the cold months. Matches are only canceled here in case of excessive rainfall, but never because of high temperatures.
Until last year I still participated in the over-40s (I was 64 at the time). If you perspire enough, your body temperature will remain far enough below 40 degrees. And I perspired. Because even with the over-40s it's about the points, and not about the game. I have to admit that I never lasted a whole game. However, most Thais managed to do so without any problems.
So a human body can take a lot. And to keep it comfortable, shade, some wind and the necessary cold drink are usually sufficient. And some trees in the vicinity would of course also help, because of all that moisture that trees evaporate.
We will stay in Thailand until May 15, we know that it will be hot from previous years. We live 250 meters from the beach where there is a nice breeze. Only the road to it is very hot, not a breath of wind.
At home in the living room 3 fans on and in the bedroom the air conditioning at 23 degrees. It sleeps wonderfully.
I have calculated that over a year I will have an average electricity consumption of 65 Baht per day.
The air conditioning is continuously set at 25 degrees.
How much would I save by fiddling with the air conditioners and walking around sweating?
20 baht a day?