Thread: The Heat Wave 2012

I realize we have had many threads on the heat but this year is by far the hottest I have ever encountered in all my time here.

Tell us what its like where you live in the LOS.

I am in Don Muang, and the klong behind my house that eventually flooded and became one big lake has now dried up. I have never seen that before. We are using pehaps 500 liters of more of water a day keeping the new grass we put in moist as it takes.

All living is done upstairs as in many Thai houses our bedrooms and offices are upstairs and air conditioned, but the living area downstairs is not. We are really missing our shade trees and waiting for the new ones to grow bigger. We are basically only downstairs to cook and eat.
Our meals have changed its so hot.Nobody is really hungry, we have had green salads, Caesar salads, chicken salads, potato salads, and most cooking is done outside on the barbecue.

I think when and if it breaks it going to be like a Delhi monsoon. Very heavy winds and very heavy rain. The whole family seems to be taking about 4 showers a day each as well.

Since April 1st no rain, and not one day below 38 degrees. Its now 40 and may cool to about 31 by the early morning.

I hope it ends soon.

What about you, and where you are?

Yep, over here in the west its the same. In 30 years I've never known it this hot. All the smaller canals around here are nearly dry exposing lots of intersting rubbish. Another week of this and they will just be a string of muddy puddles. 2 more weeks and they will be bone dry.
The sole air conditioner in the house is getting very little respite. Its set to 29 most of the day and when you walk into the bedroom it seems like a fridge.
Went out and bought some more insulation for the rear extension today in the optimistic hope it might help keep the downstairs a smidge cooler. Havn't had a beer since before songkran.
I've taken to recycling my boxers by wearing them inside out if the waistband gets too wet with sweat. The village is like a ghost town and a lot of plants are on their last legs.

I only hope smeg is'nt reading this and finds fuel for another MKP thread

Power went out here at 4:15 in DM, the whole area. On a lap top with an hours worth of batteries now. Hot!! The whole Muban is yelling Fi Dop you can hear it as you sit outside trying to get some breeze. Normally an hour to an hour and a half to get it back up.

It is what it is, AO. Just got to wait it out. Same here, about 37 average for the last few weeks, frequent power outages. That's why we live here, and not in the US. Take the good with the not so good.

I am and just sitting out on the balcony after hosing myself down I thought of a great one.

My cold showers are now warm and that is at 5am. Forget the noon showers and I swear the evening showers are even hotter.

Yes, it is hot.

Here is a funny thing, not!

Yesterday, I (the smart American) readjusted the automatic sprinkler system for our home in BKK. Hell, it was hot and the plants needed watering.

The only problem was with my mathematical brain, I had managed to drain our 1500L tank by 5am.

The wife was not a happy camper. She and the rest of the family (daughter & I) had to take a shower with the decorative klong buckets in the backyard.

My timing for the main tank to fill was a bit off...

Sounds like me, the wife is much more practical than I. My water is quite warm as well. I sprinkled the yard as the pump as off for 45 minutes. More water went on me I am sure.

Just had another shower and heading upstairs to the air with a carafe of iced mango juice and a book. Wife's got magazines, kid's got iPad and BB. So we're all set.

Hot.

Stay cool gents.

on a full sun, the thermo indicator in the car indicated 49 C at 11am

never seen anything like that before, it's dry and the sun is burning hot

they expect rain by the end of the week,

We are living upstairs as well. As for cooking, forget it, all our meals are take out now. I don't even have to turn the heat on for the shower, it is warm already straight from the tank outside. My dog is drinking 4 bowls of water a day. Hottest summer in at least ten years.

It's so hot i am having trouble pissing.
Drinking loads of water - still can't piss.
And i smell.

It's a bit windy here in Hong Kong. But unseasonably cold and foggy.

I have just gotten sweaty attempting to mark out the wall in the hallway where I will hang my Polar Bear skin rug, which surprisingly tolerates the humidity well.

Not so a pair of 16th Century Florentine maps I had in Bangkok, which started to show some signs of foxing. So I have extracted them from their frames and brought them here, where I can look after them better.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

it is the eterminable greyness of life at the moment, the sun has hardly been seen for the whole of April

depressing but that is the weather I normally manage to avoid!

Nice here, today. Endless sunshine ! Or, as we Welsh like to say, " interminable sunshine".

Phetchaburi . We had a thunder storm today which has dropped the mercury a bit but has been very hot 35c in the house in the day .
Plenty of water though and the lecky has not gone off for for a few weeks ,the river 200mtr away is still high but i havent been to Kangkrachan to see the resevuar so dont know how much water is in it .
Must be 40 out in the sun and the dogs just pant all day and look very hot.

wouldn't y'all prefer the dark grey days and several weeks now of pissing rain here in the gloriest south coast riviera?

Not so bad today... but still fucking hot.

Fok that Dudes, don't think I could hack that heat anymore.

Stinking hot in Ubon. The locals are sounding like poms, non-stop complaining about the heat.

Originally Posted by terry57

Fok that Dudes, don't think I could hack that heat anymore.

Yep, an average of 40.1 for the month of April !!