TAK: -- Temperatures yesterday soared to 44 degrees Celsius in Tak province, making it the hottest day in Thailand in 47 years.

Meteorological Department statistics indicate the highest temperature ever recorded in Thailand was 44.5C, in Uttaradit province on April 27, 1960. That was followed the very next day by 43.9C recorded in Udon Thani province. Tak saw 43.7C in 1983 and 43.5C in 2004.

Tak Weather Bureau chief Somsong Duanmai said the mercury had regularly gone past 40C in the northern province since the start of this month. He said people now tried to avoid going outdoors, except when they cooled down in rivers.

Source: The Nation 26-4-2007

funnily enough i spoke to my wife who's in Chonburi at the moment (waiting for her interview with the embassy - May 14th is d-day)and she told me that all the locals are saying it is hotter now than they can ever remember. infact it was so hot a couple of nights ago that she checked into an air conditioned hotel for the night.

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infact it was so hot a couple of nights ago that she checked into an air conditioned hotel for the night.

Wise lady

When in LOS recently it hit 42 in Phitsanulok and despite wearing a hat I got sun stroke and had to spend 6 hours non stop in an a/c room at full whack (actually our house which on reflection was the best £500 I have ever spent in LOS) although the wife didn't agree and kept going outside to "heat up"
colin 244

April is shaping up to the the warmest ever recorded in the UK - see April weather set to break record. Maybe this this summer will be a another scorcher like last July.

If global warming kicks in big time then things could be a little too hot in Thailand.

Mmmmmm , I remember in Phetchabun city about 5 years ago, the big electronic type notice board read 47degrees, and the thermometer reading I took at our house last week read 48 degrees in the sun, and 40 in the shade.
What am I doing wrong?