Cold Snap

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It is bitter cold here in greater Bangkok.  At dawn it was 66*F (19*C).  I was sleeping with long pants, a shirt, a scarf, and a hooded sweatshirt.  After midnight I put a blanket over my bare feet.  But I still woke up cold and finally turned the fan off at 4 AM, the first time I’ve turned it off in recent memory.  Without the fan, a mosquito bit my hand, but I decided not to fight it if they were that determined. 

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Sitting up during the day, it was still down in the 70s F and too humid and uncomfortable without the fan, but I had to wear a turtleneck shirt to keep the cold draft off my throat. 

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On Thailand’s highest mountain in the north, there was frost at dawn.  Emergency units are dispensing blankets to people living in the North and Northeast.  Tuk just zipped up a jacket this evening, in the house!  I think that an apocalypse of freeze is upon us, and we are headed to a new Snowball Earth and an icy extinction.  Bundle up. 

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-Zenwind.

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