March equinox 2026 / 03 / 20

March equinox is at 9:46 pm today Thailand time.. It is the start of spring in the northern hemisphere, different from tropical seasons. Locally the hot and dry season referred to as summer begins mid February and ends mid May

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Sakon City in momentary darkness

 

  During outage I received an AIS text message that improvements were underway and would conclude at 9 am. Wonder if there is any relationship between the two interruptions between electric utility amd telecom services สกลนคร Sakon Nakhon

Long lines at the pump are only going to make things worse

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Wat Wong Sri Daram Bun Mahachat Festival March 27th to 30th

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Paid US Taxes due for a small online fee, mailing my tax return is another matter

That's the message I got from a person attempting to post my tax return envelope at the local post office. The envelope is now on the kitchen table. Alternate online filing is offered at $100 fee and more. Of course I would like to avoid that and go for the $10 mailing fee สกลนคร Sakon Nakhon

Police training 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

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Music Festival Thursday thru Saturday

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Early morning rain started right after I had watered the plants.

image Google Earth 9 am 

Most of the weather system moving west to east seems to stay north of Sakon City

For an updated version of the animation go to http://www.sattmet.tmd.go.th/satmet/mergesat.html

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Delay of hot season 😙

"Scattered" thunderstorms one or two days. or all week . . . 

Depends on which forecaster you follow.

Thai Meteorology Department: "today and every day next week"   Accuweather: "Monday, Thursday and Friday"

BBC: "all week except Thursday

Wunderground: "Tuesday,Wednesday, Saturday"

System arriving from the west.  Sakon City seems to be at the south edge of the system.  But that can change

images 5 am

Noteworthy:  the system seems to increase humidity, thus the feels like temperatures will be hot some days

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