Now this is really bad and maybe even worse than we thought

We do not even need to leave the house to see that air quality is reaching critical levels, just a peek out of the window can confirm maybe we should stay home or buy a gas mask.
The pictures below were kindly sent to me today from Ronny. The first came with the following information !

The agricultural fire season in Southeast Asia spreads smoke across a large portion of, from west to east, Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos. Country borders are marked by black lines. This image of the region was captured by the MODIS on NASA's Aqua satellite on March 4, 2007.
Places where MODIS detected actively burning fires are marked in red. During the area's dry season (roughly fall-winter in the Northern Hemisphere), intentional land management fires, as well as accidental forest fires that spread from agricultural areas are common in Southeast Asia.

And the second came with this!

This shows graphically what we know about yesterday: pretty bad air.
Note that the first line, in red, shows the supposedly "acceptable" level (120). Chiang Mai hit 273.5 yesterday.

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