It's been a little quiet here, so I thought I would start a topic. As some may know I am a US citizen planning an extended stay in Lao. My topic is regarding the weather. I have looked at many weather reports and history for Lao. In comparison to my city, the weather looks very mild.

I will give you the temperature details of my current home in the USA. The hot season in my city is 38 C (100 F) or above. The cold season is -17 C (0 F) and often below. The weather in Lao looks very nice in comparison.

Feel free to post any comments regarding Lao or the weather wherever you might be today. Have a great day everyone.

I'm in the dirty south and it's hot in here. Summers are around 40C with humidity and winters, if you can call it that are around 10C and I don't even need to turn on my heat. When I lived in Canada, the summers were around 20-30C and winters were a chilly -25C on average, otherwise -35C with the windchill. I hated snow and I hated hearing people in tropical countries tell me how pretty snow is since they've never even seen it ever. Try to live in it for 6 months out of a year, driving in it, walking in it, shovelling it, freezing in it, then tell me how pretty you think it is then. I think the perfect weather is having all 4 seasons present throughout the year. I lived on the west coast and it was somewhat like that, summers were warm, autumn had colorful leaves, winter was a wonderland, and spring showers bloomed fresh flowers. I was a poet and didn't even know it. I wonder if we have to worry about things like typhoons or tsunami's or floods from heavy rains in laos. I know there is a rainy season and most bamboo houses are built off the ground, maybe to avoid flooding. I think I saw a rainbow while in Luang Prabang on top of the monument overlooking the city.

It's usually hot in Laos, even the rainy season is hot. The weather is more tropical, where as maybe in America you have dry, humid summers.

The gutter system in Laos is not good so it always floods when there is heavy rain. Houses are lifted higher if they are too low.

How's Vientiane drainage system?  Looking at some of the side profiles of the city, Vientiane is built on a gently sloping surface is it so? If so most of water should drain directly to the Mekong River.


Admin Saovaluck wrote on 12^th Aug, 2009 at 3:39am:

It's usually hot in Laos, even the rainy season is hot. The weather is more tropical, where as maybe in America you have dry, humid summers. The gutter system in Laos is not good so it always floods when there is heavy rain. Houses are lifted higher if they are too low.

Currently I don't think Vientiane have drainage system. They're working on it. Little rain sometime will cause flood.
:o 8-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B26myLctR3s&feature=related



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyrpLEnQlTQ&feature=related

Just level the low spots with soil for right now. What is the lithology directly below the topmost soil horizon?  


llX wrote on 15^th Apr, 2011 at 5:56pm:

Currently I don't think Vientiane have drainage system. They're working on it. Little rain sometime will cause flood. :o 8-)

I'm not sure.
:o