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I get that but there are times when you'd like an absolute number.

I wake up. It's still dark. I'm about to do a cycling workout. I'd like an accurate AQI number so I can decide whether or not to put on an N95 mask before I start cranking.

You’re absolutely right. If you look at the data sources most are volunteers with their own gear. Very few official or institutional sources. No way to know how accurate any of it is. When I have some more time I’ll look more close at how data is gathered for individual locations and decide from the...

I thought it would be interesting to add air quality data to the web cameras I have in both Korat and Cha Am. It seems the most commonly used source is Air Visual from IQAir . It was pretty easy to get a key for their API. Downloading and decoding the data was a bit more challenging. At least it fil...

Thanks. Nice stuff. Makes me a bit sad to have ended up here.

This is the place we go for seafood in Cha Am. Always fresh. Good service. Excellent food.

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Almost never see other foreigners; mostly Thais, often in groups.

The Lotus Express (?) in Cha Am also closed a few months ago. I guess it was too close to the big Lotus's that opened about a year ago.

On the other hand, 7Elevens keep opening all over the place.

Yesterday morning at the end of my cycling workout I was about to turn from a main road onto the side road that leads to my home. As usual, the larger vehicles had moved forward into the intersection hoping that I would turn in behind them. I hate doing this because, well, it's both wrong and danger...

Just applied for a WISE debit card which lets you access your multi-currency accounts with a card around the world. Its another one of those "Thailand mai dai" things so you have to change the address if you have opened the account in Thailand and used an address here. Have you gotten muc...

Not sure all these updates posted are necessary as the forum has an AQI meter on it on the right... :idea: aqi.jpg Not when you're reading it with Tapatalk. :=( This is because the designers of the forum website have decided to create a responsive design that moves all the stuff in the far right co...

Moon, Jupiter and Venus

This was taken at 7:01 PM on February 23rd from a dive boat near Ao Kuerk Bay (Donald Duck Bay) at Similan Island #8. The two planets appeared closer together a few days later, but this was the best shot I could get. Taken with an iPhone 14 Pro.

Interesting. This is what my wife sent me this morning:
. How could they be so different and how could this one be so wrong?

This morning my wife informed me that the US AQI in Cha Am is 21, or "Good".

Doesn't look so good to me:
. From my balcony webcam. You can just barely see Khao Yai on the horizon to the left.

BTW, the AQI here in Korat is 188 or "Unhealthy".

Nice, the viz looks pretty good. Seriously need to dust off my diving gear now! The viz was pretty good much of the time. There were a few thermoclines that messed things up a bit. Actually, iMove does a pretty good job of cleaning up less-than-perfect viz. So, what you see might be a bit better th...

As promised, here's the video from our North Andaman dive trip last week. Nothing spectacular.