Weather in Thailand

Weather is the condition of gases in the air. To put it simpler, weather refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation. To put it simplest, weather is driven by density that varies from one place to another.

Is Thailand hot or cold?

Being a land bordered with 12 nautical miles of sea, 15° 00' N and 100° 00' E, Thailand can be cold, wet, or dry. These differences occur due to the tilt of the Earth’s axis, blowing northeast monsoon every November till February, and southwest monsoon from June till October. This leaves the months of March, April, and May ‘hot,’ averaging to 260-340 Celsius.

Those monsoons move around the world at various times of the year, the word meaning ‘season’ from the Arabic term mausim, and referring to wind shifts. They turn Thailand generally hot, with temperatures between the hottest and the coldest months of the year varying by about 10¬0 only.

But then, Thailand has chosen to fuel its economy by developing industries and liken every town to a city. Natural habitats were lost, increasing air and water pollution. Domestic sewage has risen, adding more solid hazardous wastes. Lands were converted, reducing forest cover from 53% in 1961 to 25% in 1998.

Rivers, which number to 25 in Thailand, accumulated sediments. Water became scarce. Thailand became the 14th emitter of industrial organic water pollution in the world even though it ranked lowest on annual water availability per capita in Asia.

This drove the government to prohibit logging here in the late 1980s; deforestation has lessened by 0.2% every year since then. It also has launched initiatives to improve air and water quality, reforested degraded land, adopted energy efficient technologies, and invested in pollution abatement schemes.

Now, roughly 68% of the water bodies in Thailand are suitable for agriculture and general consumption again. It has phased out leaded gasoline, and its private sectors became active in improving environmental quality. It is unscrambling what it has done to nature—albeit slow—maintaining the tropical weather it has from the start.