Wear a wet kitchen towel as a neck scarf

Heat rises, plain and simple!

If you're upright, heat escapes your body through your head, neck and shoulders.

The body's cooling system creates perspiration to cool you down. Moisture!
  Moisture helps dissipate heat.

Add Water

Wet your head and help heat dissipation. It doesn't have to be cold or ice water.

Your scalp doesn't need a brainfreeze. Room temperature seems to work best for me.

Rubbing alcohol diluted in water has a great temporary cooling effect on your skin.

At home I soak the shirt and shorts I'm wearing, the dampness has a cooling effect, especially if you stand in front of a fan.

Out in public, wear a wet bar or kitchen towel as a neck scarf.  Might look silly, but it serves a purpose!!

UV is sky high at the moment, protect yourself

Nearly fisticuff FC

Expected a loss for Sakon FC at Ubon FC.

Ubon FC ended the 2012 season in last place, second to last in 2011.

Talk about a makeover.  Ubon FC started the season at the top and has remained there.  At the moment in second place

From the looks of this highlight video, it was a fiercely fought game.  Nearly fisticuff. 

Sakon FC, at the moment in tenth position,  next hosts Mukdahan FC, Saturday, April 6.
Announced game start time 5 PM.
Mukdahan is at the moment in last position in the league (16).

Sakon FC next travels to Roi Et, April 20, to face number one in the league

Manhole Remodel

March 18

Road construction was almost complete.

No manhole covers.

Neighbors installed temporary covers to allow vehicular access.

March 31

The manholes were jack-hammered. Cement and metal removed.

By the end of the day it became obvious:  A Manhole Remodel!!

Still no covers 

Wondering if this is a government project or an independent contractor?

No Fooling, it's gonna get annoyingly hot

Thirty year average statistics at Thai Meteorology Department from 1961 to 1990 list the maximum temperature in April at 34.7 Celsius.

More recent statistics at Meoweather list the absolute maximum April temperature at 41.1 C.

From the looks of things, 41C is the new average.

Ironically, expect a break in the extreme heat right during the Songkran Festival

	Mon 1	Tue 2	Wed 3	Thu 4	Fri 5	Sat 6	Sun 7	Mon 8	Tue 9	Wed 10
AccuWeather	37/25	38/26	39/2 8	40/29	41/27	42/24	38/26	40/27	41/28	38/25
AccuWeather   Feels Like	44/26	42/26	43/27	42/28	42/25	44/22	41/25	42/26	42/25	45/26
MeoWeather	36/29	38/30	39/29	39/28	40/23	41/22	34/22
Thai Meteorological	38/26	37/25	36/24	35/24	38/25	38/25
The Weather Channel	36/25	37/26	37/26	38/25	39/25	38/23	36/24	37/26	37/26	37/25
Wunderground	35/24	37/27	39/27	39/30	40/28	39/22	33/22
rp5.ru	35/26	38/28	40/29	41/27	41/26	38/

There was some light rain in scattered areas yesterday evening.  No rain around my home.

Heavy gusts of winds experienced over the past two days, may make a few curtain calls.

Sakon Nakhon Mercury Rising

Sakhon Nakhon reels under heat, drought
  The Nation

No reprieve in sight.  It's gonna get hotter

Hey buddy can I borrow 68 Billion (US$)

Thailand infrastructure loan bill passes first reading

Opinion!

Improvement of water reservoirs, waterway construction, flood diversion (capture) projects, dredging and the like, should received higher priority than high speed trains and super highways

A long history of floods and droughts should be a lesson of worse yet to come. 

Scattered Thunderstorms

Locally generated thunderstorms here and there, next three days.
Scattered light rain at times.


Ocean Temperatures hotter than 'normal'

Click image for current conditions at wundergound


Expect stronger and more frequent tropical storms

Just in time for Easter

wikipedia In 1988 a radiocarbon dating test was performed on small samples of the shroud. The laboratories at the University of Oxford, the University of Arizona, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, concurred that the samples they tested dated from the Middle Ages, between 1260 and 1390.

Don't turn on your phone...

... if it gets wet during Songkran.

We have the tendency to turn it on to see if it still works.

DON'T DO IT!! You only exasperate the problem.

Immediately remove the battery and place your phone in fresh, plain rice.

Unlike the suggestion in the video of 24 hours,  I'd double that time (48 hours).  Unfold the phone and remove all removable covers