Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
Another very interesting observation. I was in Bangkok over 30 years ago and I cannot say that I really notice a huge difference in the weather between then and now. However, the gf grew up here in Isan and she insists that it gets hotter here now than it did 40 years ago. She says that when she was young temperatures in the 30s Centigrade were already high. She insists that they never saw teperatures touch 40 degrees back then, whereas now they do.
I have never looked into the data to confirm her claims. Certainly she isn't the only one who talks about it being hotter and here, the locals being close to the land, I suspect they are correct.

She is absolutely correct. Back when I was a boy in the 60s, I remember there was once we reached 31C and we thought that was the end of the world. Now, when we have 31C, we sing "jingle bells".


Also in those days, winter showed up around the end of September and we held winter fair in October (called "Ngan Ka-chart (= red cross fair)). We all wore winter clothes and flirted in the fair, the later at night the more fun. Some year, the temperature went low to one digit, such as 9C, in Bangkok. Winter went on strongly through January and subsided in late February.

We the children hardly had sweat when playing but it was kind of "shit" when bath-time came in the evening for we did not have warm water. Some days we had to boil water in a kettle to mix with cool water from the tap.

Nowadays, the weather is so hot but we had electric water heater.