Mid Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 Health-hazard haze returns to southern Thailand Saturday 7 July 2007 01:10:03 PM (GMT+7:00) SATUN, July 6 (TNA) – Thailand's Pollution Control Department has dispatched a mobile air quality monitoring unit to the southernmost province of Satun, because it is necessary to monitor its air quality closely after the skies there have been clogged with smog from forest fires in Indonesia for a third consecutive day. MCOT Public Company Limited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbk Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 Every year at this time (as the winds blow out of the SW) Southern Thailand gets this Indonesian haze. Singapore and Malaysia are worse. One year, it was so bad the haze reached Chumpon. I could smell burning matter on the air and visibility here was less than 1km. You'd think they would bloody learn by now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RueFang Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 I just did a visa run down to Malaysia yesterday and you couldn't even see the mountains! Just imagine how bad it is for the Indonesians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbk Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 Not that bad, apparently. The haze is blown out of Indonesia and onto Singapore, Malaysia and now Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seonai Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 God I remember the smog from the last few years! Yuch ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khall64au Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Not reached Phuket - YET!! Last year, the haze hung around for months... surprisingly not much press considering the 'global warming' hype of late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mid Posted July 16, 2007 Author Share Posted July 16, 2007 Indonesia predicts much lighter forest fire this year July 16, 2007 Forest fire in Indonesia was forecast to be much lighter this year due to the greater efforts to combat the fires, Minister of Forestry Malam Sambat Kaban said on Monday.The efforts was mainly targeted to reduce burning during the land clearing, which is the major cause of the frequent forest fire in the country, said the minister. Source: Xinhua Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiang mai Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 A mobile air quality measuring unit eh, I doubt they would have been able to see adequately enough to be able to drive the ###### thing in Chiang Mai earlier this year, that's why I moved here last month. Don't tell me I'm in for more of the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxexile Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 asian forest fire maps....july 2007 more fire maps for july 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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