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    Air quality in and around Bangkok to deteriorate until next week

    Air pollution in Bangkok and its peripherals is forecast to increase even further, before it starts to improve on Monday, due to improved air circulation, according to the Pollution Control Department’s projection.


    The Air4Thai website reported that, at 11am today, the amount of PM2.5 dust in eight districts was measured between 46.7-84.9µg/m³, which is in the Red level. They were Bangkok Noi, Phasi Charoen, Bang Khun Thian, Thawi Wattana, Nong Khaem, Bang Bon and Prawet.


    The locations where excessive air pollution has been detected for three consecutive days are Ma Charoen Road, Phet Kasem 8 and Phet Kasem 81 in Nong Khaem district.


    Pollution in 17 northern, north-eastern and eastern provinces is also predicted to worsen until next Monday.


    Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt blamed car exhaust and outdoor burning as the main contributors to the poor air quality in the capital.


    Two hotspots (fires) have been detected in Sai Mai and Nong Chok districts in the past two days, he said, adding that more have been detected in the central and eastern regions since the beginning of this year than last year. An average of 108 hotspots per day were recorded last year, compared to 182 this year.


    Natural Resources and Environment Minister Chalermchai Srion said that the ministry has been allocated 620 million baht from the Central Fund to hire people living near forest, from February through April to prevent fires.


    He said that it is more logical to hire villagers to protect the forests than to spend it on trying to arrest them after they started fires.

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    Cough cough..............

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    Reminds me of living in Sheffield when you looked down Don Valley.

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    Here today my reading on a sunny windless afternoon,

    I can see smoke in the distant hills 20km away as the Mts on the horizon are not crystal clear , need aerial recon to identify teh source but almost certainly Hmong swidden way off any road any local cop would take their shiney new cars.

    I go up some trails on a normal street bike would need something like Stumpy's fantastic 4 wheel quad "Moonrover " or a long hike up to where these folks are!

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    My daughter's school is closed tomorrow due to the air.

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    My daughter's school is closed tomorrow due to the air.
    I am sorry to hear that, is it the school in high level or are they thinking of the travel.
    Will work from home or have to find childcare?

    I imagine teenagers will visit mates . malls, sports ?

    My visibilty during sundowner about 90m ago was barely 25km to Mt peaks how about BKK are the skyscrapers shrouded in smog like Baiyoke?

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    I am sorry to hear that, is it the school in high level or are they thinking of the travel.
    Will work from home or have to find childcare?

    I imagine teenagers will visit mates . malls, sports ?

    My visibilty during sundowner about 90m ago was barely 25km to Mt peaks how about BKK are the skyscrapers shrouded in smog like Baiyoke?
    High all around Bangkok. But today you could see it. Government called it I think.

    Wife came home with an air purifier. I don't really care. A few years off my life would be a blessing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    A few years off my life would be a blessing.
    I think not. I am sure that your daughter and your dogs would disagree.

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    ^ Yeah, chin up Armstrong!

    Think about all those Pot Noodle importers as well.

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    Perhaps relocate, too much hassle at my age if I was under 50 and needed to go outdoors daily I'd head to the coasts ?Surely in Phuket, Krabi Songkhla with so many expats/unis and fresher sea air or Singapore with better salaries.
    One prepared to work away from home or omline world is your oyster for a decade until AI cheaper than front line staff?

    Anyway, keep purifier on 24/7 , try to seal rooms during peak pollution hrs and clean filter regularly, low tech slide out rinse dry, once warn out replace! Good luck.

    Aside from traffic cops are folks wearimg masks again, none spotted here yet.

    If I had nippers and they could bear masks a no brainer as they are goimg to need that lung capacity a lot longer in good condition than the old folks on TD like me iat the all you can slurp buffet in the VIP lounge for reincarnation

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    More than 250 Bangkok schools close over air pollution

    More than 250 schools in Bangkok were closed on Thursday (Jan 23) due to pollution, authorities said, as officials urged people to work from home and restricted heavy vehicles in the city.


    Seasonal air pollution has long afflicted Thailand, like many countries in the region, as colder, stagnant winter air combines with smoke from crop stubble burning and car fumes.

    On Thursday morning, the Thai capital was the sixth most polluted major city in the world, according to IQAir.


    Level of PM2.5 pollutants - cancer-causing microparticles small enough to enter the bloodstream through the lungs - hit 122 micrograms per cubic metre.


    The World Health Organization recommends 24-hour average exposures should not be more than 15 for most days of the year.


    Bangkok authorities said earlier this week schools in areas with elevated levels of PM2.5 could choose to close.


    And by Thursday morning, 194 of the 437 schools under the authority of the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority had shut their doors, affecting thousands of students.


    The figure was the highest since 2020, when all schools under BMA authority closed over air pollution.


    Another 58 schools out of the 156 under the Office of the Basic Education, a central government body, had also decided to close by Thursday.


    There are several other schools in the capital under different authorities, and private establishments, but figures for them were not available.


    VULNERABLE CHILDREN


    Children are especially vulnerable to the impacts of air pollution, but rights advocates warned that closures disproportionately affect the most vulnerable students.


    "School closures should be a last resort," said Severine Leonardi, UNICEF Thailand deputy representative.

    "There really needs to be a wake-up call on the need to invest in the education system and protect children," she told AFP.


    Authorities encouraged people to work from home this week, but the scheme is voluntary and has just 100,000 registered participants in a city of some 10 million.


    Officials have also limited access for six-wheel trucks in parts of the capital until late Friday.


    The government has announced incentives to stop crop stubble burning and is even trialling a novel method to tackle air pollution by spraying cold water or dry ice into the air above the smog.


    But the measures have had little impact so far, and opposition politicians have accused Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra - currently in Davos for the World Economic Forum - of failing to take the issue seriously.


    "While the prime minister is breathing fresh air in Switzerland as she tries to attract more investment to Thailand ... millions of Thais are breathing polluted air into their lungs," Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, leader of the People's Party, charged in a Facebook post.


    Clean air activists have been pushing for legislation that could pass later this year.


    "You really need comprehensive legislation on all the different dimensions of the crisis," said Guillaume Rachou, executive director at Save the Children Thailand.


    "It's difficult but I think with the Clean Air Act, we're getting there," he told AFP.

    More than 250 Bangkok schools close over air pollution - CNA

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