Thai authorities have advised Bangkok
residents to stay in Durst as they
tackle rising levels of air pollution in
the capital city must ferry conditions
that high capital have again become
unsafe on a recent morning the Sun
struggled to break through a blanket of
air pollution enveloping central Bangkok
it was so bad that the Thai capital
gained an undesirable achievement for
that day the fifth most polluted city in
the world the air quality that I am
experienced right now it's worse than
Chiang Mai most foreigners or most
people when they talk about the burning
season and the bad air quality in
Thailand they usually talk about Chiang
Mai or the northern part of Thailand
they don't really talk about other parts
of Thailand when it comes to the burning
season but apparently there are
different parts of the country that also
have bad air quality I believe there is
one place that is possibly even worse
than Chiang Mai and I'll talk about that
next so for the record I used to live in
Chiang Mai twice in a total of about one
year I also live in Chiang Rai maybe
about two years in Bangkok on and off
also morhen ubon ratchathani so I I've
been living in Thailand for now little
over three years and I live through
Chiang Mai burning season and it is not
even as bad as the one right now so
right now I am in Sattahip district
wishes east of Thailand what happening
right now is it's the burning season so
it is at the time this recording is in
the middle of January so that's the
start of the burning season in Southeast
Asia
and it starts January and it ends maybe
in March it could be even a bit later in
April the peak would be in February
which is a couple weeks from now as of
right now it's pretty bad because I'm
getting a lot like my chest is tightened
up because I'm breathing in all this
pollution it's getting worse
maybe because I
living here for three years and I
accumulated a lot of that in in my body
and now even a little bit of pollution
my body is now miss it's like my upper
chest is tightening up because all that
your particles is going in my lungs I
try my best to stay indoor and wear a
mask when I'm outside on my scooter but
it's hard to avoid it
so what happened was I wonder I start
wondering how come my chest is
tightening up like the past week it's
tightening up three times usually it
doesn't tighten up maybe four or five
months it happened once but the past
week it happened three times like one
after another and I look online and I
saw some news talking about the air
quality in Bangkok but I am in such a
hip district is what three four hours
drive from Bangkok so how can the
pollution from Bangkok come all the way
to where I'm at right now so it doesn't
make sense of what I did was I look
online and apparently there is a burning
season that's happening right now so
this is the website by NASA they have a
infrared satellite image and these
little red dots are fires in different
parts of Southeast Asia so this would be
Thailand right here I'm guessing here so
Thailand the labs would be right here
and right here would be Cambodia and
this would be where now we're here so
Bangkok is right here and as you can see
there's no there's not too many fires
detected by these NASA satellite this is
the Cambodian fires and you can see this
whole bunch of it right here there are
smaller fires that the satellite cannot
detect so these are just this little
fires the fires that are big enough for
the saw light picked up so what happened
when when you burn something create
combustion and then
smoke and all the fume coming out from
the the fire all that smoke it has to go
somewhere it's gonna it goes to the
atmosphere and what happened if you look
at this second map here so this website
tells different this is a forecast
weather website so if you look at the
wind speed right now it's on temperature
if I click wind speed so you see the
wind speed 10 meter above ground but the
fire when it's smoke it goes up to the
atmosphere like all these little
pollution particles 500 meters I'm
guessing by the way I'm not an expert in
this I'm not a meteorologist I'm just a
regular guy so what happening is that
remember the fire in Cambodia was
happening right here and the wind is
blowing all that smoke into guess what
all over this place so it's blowing here
Bangkok already has a problem with the
air quality because of the amount of
vehicles and emission coming off the
vehicles now on top that you have fires
from Cambodia which is coming through
and also all these part of Thailand over
here this is where I live in such a hip
and I'm getting affected by it too now
if you're coming here for a holiday in
Thailand and if you're healthy this
probably won't affect you so if just
here for like a week or two even in
Bangkok might not affect you unless
you're like an older person or you have
other respiratory disease by the way if
you are in Chiang Mai right now do you
do you feel that the air quality is
worse this year than last year or is it
getting better leave your comment below
because I never thought that a place
that is four or five hours from Bangkok
and probably like 20 hours drive from
Chiang Mai their air quality that I am
experiencing right now it's worse than
Chiang Mai it's so worse it's so bad
right now that I went out and I just
purchased a air purifier for my room
because the particle
can come in if I open the door and it
could just stay in the room and even at
nighttime when I go sleep I can kind of
get at smaller tightening up line up my
chest and it's very very annoying and I
am just kind of concerned about the
long-term exposure what the Thai
Authority are saying is that they are
spraying water into the to the air and
they were planning that to have like an
airplane and drop some kind of chemical
to make to make it rain but hoping that
into the into the sky hoping that the
level of air pollution will be decreased
I think they are wrong because it probe
in China and India and anywhere else it
is that if it is not a solution okay so
I completely agree with that person you
know spraying water or even if it rained
or even if there is a tropical storm
like what what happened couple weeks ago
or last week in the Gulf of Thailand if
that happened it's only gonna clear up
the sky and the air for maybe a couple
of days or whatever basically it's just
a band-aid because the core of the
problem is the amount of vehicles on the
road so as well as the fire in Cambodia
so if they don't stop the fire in
Cambodia and the winds blowing all that
particles in the atmosphere into Bangkok
into Thailand it doesn't matter if you
spray water to it you have to like
constantly spraying water and it's not
gonna solve the problem it's just a
band-aid
I think if so if you are thinking of
retiring or living in Thailand long term
air quality is something you have to
consider I don't know how you're gonna
avoid it there's no way you can stay
indoor 100 percent of the time
I think in Shyam and in hen is
pretty safe i those would be the spot
where I would buy a house and live if I
you know if I have a choice I would
never buy a house in Bangkok because of
I can't live with this type of problem
even on the east now I didn't know this
until today or this week that the air
quality is gonna be this bad in my
opinion the air quality even all the way
in such a hip district 45 hours from
Bangkok was in my experience in my
opinion was worse than Chiang Mai I'm
not sure about Pattaya I will assume
much Tatia would be just as bad that's
where I was probably more because
there's more people there anyways well
what do you think about the air quality
in Thailand what do you think the
solutions they should come up with if
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