Bring an Umbrella Around Because There’ll Be Rain in S’pore For The Next Four Days

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, literally, and the rock is located in a safe room deep underground, you’d know that we’ve been experiencing rain the past few days.

So much rain that even Singaporeans, who typically love a cooler weather, wished that it would stop.

So the question is, why? Why is the sky crying so much? Just like my mom did after watching the father die in My Golden Life?

That’s because the father sacrificed everything for his ungrateful kids, only to realise- Oh! You just want to know why it’s raining so much only?

Sorry, my bad.

Remember to bring an umbrella out for the next few days

Like my boss always says, it’s good to tell people about important things. But first thing first, tell them the most useful one.

And because I idolise my boss (not really, I just don’t want him to fire me), I’ll give him a minute of respect and tell you something really useful.

Bring an umbrella out wherever you go for the next four days. Because you can expect rain every single day.

At the very least, you can expect late morning and early afternoon thundery showers for the next four days until 3 Jul 2018.

In other words, I finally have that excuse not to go running liao. Shiok!

So why is it raining so much?

So the question is, why is it raining so much? And that, my dearest readers, is because of the southwest monsoon conditions.

Don’t worry, I know your pain. When I was digging through the Internet of Things (IoT), that’s my reaction as well.

The southwest monsoon and strong solar heating of land areas

When we think monsoon, we’re thinking rain, rain and more rain. But as it turns out, that’s not the case.

Singapore experiences the southwest monsoon from June to September and the northeast monsoon from December to early March.

That’s right, two monsoon seasons.

The southeast monsoon is supposed to be dry and warm, while the northeast monsoon season is wetter.

The Southwest Monsoon condition settled down over Singapore and the surrounding region in the month of June 2018.

Which, by the way, explains why the first two weeks of June were so damn hot.

But that doesn’t mean it’ll be sunny all day long.

Due to the strong solar heating of land areas in Singapore, clouds blown in by the southwestern or southeastern winds could still dissipate. In other words, rain.

Hot air rises, make the particles within the cloud so heavy it falls down to earth as rain. 

Which is why we experienced short localised thundery storms.

Then, we have the Sumatra Squalls

As the name suggests, the squall starts in Sumatra.

As southwest winds pass over the mountains of Sumatra, it creates an unstable atmosphere and thunderstorms merge with one another, forming a squall line like this.

Then, the southwest winds move this line in the northeast direction towards the Straits of Malacca.

It’ll intensify in strength over the Straits of Malacca and move towards either Malaysia or Singapore.

Once it moves inland, the squall line loses strength and dissipates rapidly. Which is why we experienced long, thundery showers on some days.

Singapore is predicted to have higher than normal rainfall in all areas, but MSS says that on days without rain, expect the temperature to go up as high as 35 degrees Celcius.

Now you know what Singaporeans are talking about today; do check back tomorrow for another piece of news of the day!