Bad Day for Smoke! - Smokey Season in Thailand
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 เม.ย. 2024
- Well it can't be perfect all the time. We are number one in the world here in Chiang Mai. Too bad it's for the worst air quality in the world. This video is a brief update on the smoke.
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Excellent video, I landed in chiang mai at beginning of april 2023. Even though their was smoke, it was still an amazing experience.
Thanks for sharing!
First smoky season in Chiang Mai for me. Not great, but not as bad as when I lived in China. Back blowing my nose was a horror show. Just seems like a time to wear masks and stay indoors. Still love CM.
I lived in Pattaya last year. It was smoggy for weeks at a time over many months.
Not sure where it all came from, but Bangkok was a big source.
Sea breezes sometimes broke up the smog for little blue sky breaks.
Heading back soon. If it's too smoggy, I'll rethink my retirement travel plans.
I dont think I could ever live in Bangkok or Pattaya with that type of pollution, such a shame would love to live there, do you think the Philippines will have better air quality?
@@torres8988 Philippines in general has better air quality. But I much prefer Thailand. This year, I'll stay in Pattaya May to Oct (when smog & tourism is low). Honestly, it's best to visit many places in SE Asia to find ones you like. It takes time. You won't know until you're there. Thailand is the best base. Make side trips from there to Phil, Bali, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia.
Great video! We were considering Chiang Mai as a possible home base, but the burning season kind of put us off! We loved everything else about it though.
Happy Songkran Chiang Mai 2024 to Tony and 14.9K subscribers!!!
Thank you very much!!!!! 🇹🇭🙏🏻😊
I am in the Sai Yok area in Kanchanaburi province at the moment with the current 2.30pm temperature of 106 degrees and unbreathable air for many days now no matter what direction I travel in. Now I just have to figure out a way back to my northern home before Songkran mania starts to the safety of my one bedroom I recently installed a air-con for just this type of situation so I can breathe and not have to rely on a spacesuit to survive. This has really become the new normal living in Thailand having to hunker down in a small room of my home.
Thankfully I have enough things to keep me busy once I return home and go into lock down with the deadly air pollution and heat adding to the mayhem outside. And the Thai government wants more tourists. No one but to blame than themselves. A fleet of air tankers around the clock would help but the big corporations are the ones really in control.
I think I just decided not to move there. That's too bad. Was looking forward to it.
Its only a few months, most expats are going south to the Beach areas between March & May.
Im in Chiang Mai at the moment & thats just a relaxed day at home with the air purifiers on. 🤷♀
@loumos 2 months, though? I'm a naturopathic doctor, so I'm pretty cognizant of environmental toxins. Don't really think I want to be subjected to that level of air pollution day in and day out. We also have 7 dogs we will be taking with us, not sure I want that for them as well.
The place we were considering has a big pond. I'm wondering about that breeding mosquitos in the summer creating a nightmare. Mosquitos can make you miserable.
@@integrativenaturalmedicine3897Best chance to avoid mosquitos in SE Asia is living near a beach with a history of breezy weather. Although Pattaya isn't my favorite place, I was pleasantly surprised by it's lack of mosquitos. Another way to minimize mosquitos is living above the 8th floor of a high rise condo.
Yesterday I was thinking about my comment I wrote you and came to the conclusion that only because I got thru this Smokey season for only 1 month. My opinion don’t really matter. This is my first Smokey season and I don’t know anything about the long term effects. So… yeah - just wanted to leave this here 🙏🏾🇹🇭
@@loumos Well, I've also given this more thought as well, and I'm back on the train of planning to move to Thailand if things line up. So long as I'm taking my remedies that detoxify and strengthen my lungs, I should be fine.
The negatives of staying in America, as I see it, are greater than the smoke, particularly if I'm proactive. I was watching a video with these changes coming in the name of climate change and saving the earth. Basically, homes will have to upgrade certain aspects to meet certain green guidelines, which won't be cheap, and if not then I believe you won't qualify good home owner insurance rates. America will become extremely difficult to thrive let alone survive. But hey, the flag represents "freedom" 🙄 With being taxed to the hill, inflation and everything else, it's becoming a nightmare. And i feel that the people here are just awful people. The whole world is changing, and fast. You just gotta do and go with what fits you and your situation best. I think I'll deal with the smoke.
I appreciate your input :)
The major reason why I chose to relocate to phuket was better air quality. It is expensive relative to Thailand, but the decent air is worth the extra baht
Thumbs up 👍 Tony
Thanks 👍
Such a pity this happens. Must be so uncomfortable. Hoping it passes soon.
Thank you! A very informative and helpful video. Made me a subscriber. Love people who tell it like it is.
Awesome, thank you!
We can look at those fire maps of the South East Asian region which shows how bad the situation is but truly it's not why the smoke is as bad as it is in Chiang Mai.
I spend a lot of time in the mountains immediately surrounding Chiang Mai riding bikes and can tell you the problem in this region of the world is hugely magnified by the village people who live there, they burn all the undergrowth in the forests so that when the rains come and the mushrooms sprout they can find them. The mushrooms attract big money I believe with the Chinese as well as local markets.
You can see all the burn't undergrowth everywhere you go in the mountains, I've regularly come across Thai men actually burning it over the last few weeks. Most of the crops were burnt off in December/January after harvesting, I've seen this too, but now it's burning the forest undergrowth.
I'm not saying the smoke would completely disappear if they stopped burning the forests but it would be nowhere as bad. It amazes me that the Thai government can't control this as it affects the health of its citizens and kills the lucrative tourist trade overnight once the smoke comes. Things in Asia work differently than in the west.
It used to be worse in the Willamette Valley of Oregon during the grass field burning. If you're a wealthy country there are alternatives. If you are more of a subsistence society, burning is your only option. At least farangs have the means to afford air-conditioning or leave. There should be no "complaining". Don't like it? Don't go there ... pretty simple.
Welcome back!
I had to leave a night early last week. I had enough after4 nights
Hope your jet lag doesn’t last too long. Take care in the smoke and heat. 😮💨
It’s hot 🥵 here on Langkawi but thankfully no smoke.
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting, I'm not sure I could do the heat, plus the smoke. Is it humid at the same time?
Yes often.
Thank you for another great video. Your channel is one of my favorite channels for learning about Thailand. Keep up the work and I look forward to seeing your next video. Also thank you for replying back to the comments so rapidly.
Wow, thank you
Been in Samui for a month, back for Song Kran. It seems to get worse in CM every year.
Thanks!
Thank you very much for your support, we really appreciate it! 🇹🇭 🙏🏻😊
Indonesia has six modern fire fighting aeroplanes from Canada. Thailand has non (only some old DC3 that are difficult to reload)
As the maps in the video show, the vast majority of fires are outside of Thailand. As he explained, they're intentionally set fires on rice farms. The government supports the farmers. They'd don't send fire fighting planes to rice farms.
Ever heard of control burning..🙄
@@hobo1704 ... all burning produces smoke which is unhealthy and needs to be stoped like in China and Indonesia.
Hey Tony. Absolutely love your Chiang Mai specific videos. Spent some time as a tourist down in Koh Lanta right before the pandemic and loved the Thai people and how slow the pace was. I'm planning to move to Chiang Mai in October but before I do I'll get in contact with you via buy me a coffee. To any expat currently in Chiang Mai is there any meet-up spots for Europeans or North Americans to get yourself acclimated? Ie groups.
There are expat groups in Thailand and for most of the major cities. Go to Facebook and look in the groups.
Moving to Chiang Mai this week (April 10) was probably not my smartest decision 😅
Live and learn. Easy to move around Thailand. Hopefully, you didn't sign a long-term lease.
Pete. Don't feel stuck. Even if you built something. There are other areas. I know several expats walking with me on the beach each morning that have similar situations. They live in Apts now but are happy and did take the steps and make the move.
Nowhere near as bad as it gets. In late March 2019 the AQI was 700.
I will be in Chiang Mai in the last week of May. Do you think the smoke will have cleared by then?
No, you will be good. 😊
@@TheNarrowGate Awesome. Thanks mate! 🤙
Check the weather. No rain, it will stay the same.
Tony. Would you mind sharing who you went with for home air purifiers and if they are working out for you. Soo many advertised on Shoppe and Lazada. Thanks for any info!! Kevin
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@@TheNarrowGate Thank you!!!
Hm, others have told me it's bad all year now in CM, but worse for a few months. It's very sad.
Mostly March and April.
@@TheNarrowGate But wasn't it Feb and March before? I remember because I have been going to CM for 15 years. We used to say that Feb was the worst and that sometimes it could be in January...
Hi Tony where you boarding your dog during vacation. Thank you
Friends house
Do you know where the smoke is coming from?
Side effect are not all immediately shown..Yeah sorry to say this is not something folks should say ..."Oh its just a few months a year" Unless of course you are also ok with saying oh its just a few years/decades less life time expectancy. The recent 29 year old Chiang Mai doctor who died of Lung cancer having never smoked in his life is telling. So is Thai hospitals claiming 40% lung cancer deaths are non smokers. Lastly air filters/purifiers in your home is nice but....Look at the filter...That is exactly what the inside of your lungs look like. Because while the purifier filters what is sucks in it does not suck everything period. Your sucking in when you breath not only purified air...of course Like you said it cannot keep up & opening doors matters not..If your room was air tight you would have worse problems 555
Big article in Bangkok Post yesterday on all the smoke related illnesses up north.. It's bad. Imho
That looks like Riverside, California in the 1970s. I think I'll go to the Philippines instead.
Noice! Thank you!