Cold is a relative term
I don't want to bore you with multiple entries about Thailand's weather, but I thought that this was too good to pass up. An article in today's Bangkok Post, with the title "Chiang Rai declared a disaster area as temperatures plummet" states that:
"Plunging temperatures have prompted local authorities in Chiang Rai to declare the province a disaster area...Kittirat Sornsue, chief of the Chiang Rai provincial office of disaster prevention and mitigation, said hundreds of thousands of Chiang Rai residents are in need of blankets and warm clothes...With a low pressure ridge moving down from China, the Meteorological Department has warned residents in the northern region to be prepared for lower temperatures of between 10 and 15 degrees Celsius [that's 50 and 59 degrees Farenheit] this week. There will also be a wind chill factor in the region."
I don't want to make light of what is really a serious situation for the people in this area who don't have warm clothing and who are unaccustomed to such low temperatures, but it would never have occurred to me to associate "50 degrees" with "disaster area."
-Tom
Comments
We are having the same weather here. El Nino has kept the temps in the 50s and 60s. If the lake wasn't so low (they let the water down for the winter) we could be water skiing with a wetsuit. I would suppose this is not a good situation for Mad River Mountain, and snow skiing.
Posted by: Bob Z | December 20, 2006 07:02 PM