Haze Might Be Gone As Early As Next Week Due to Monsoon Changes

“Haze haze go away, don’t come back again, just stay away.”

If you have been chanting this every day for the past few weeks together with me, our prayers might have finally been answered.

The haze might be gone as early as next week,

“Really?! Next week? You’re not kidding right?”

Yes friend, I’m not kidding. It’s true, and it is all written in the weather forecast, which we all know is as accurate as how guys pee at the urinal.

The End of a Dry Season

Hazy conditions are looking to ease up as early as next week due to the heralding rainfalls. This is because we are approaching the end of the dry season.

What comes after a dry season? That’s right, a monsoon season.

According to the Asean Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC), the current south-west monsoon season is transitioning into the inter-monsoon season. Hence, this brings more rainfall over Singapore region.

Now, note that this isn’t NEA, but the ASMC has 20 years of experience in our region, so they should be pretty accurate.

With the increase in rainfall during the inter-monsoon period, the haze situation is forecast to improve in the Southern Asean region. This means that the haze might be gone as early as next week.

Nice.

Monsoon Seasons

But simi is monsoon?

If you’ve read our previous article about the 10 facts of haze, you’d know that the haze is primarily caused by the dry season since the fire over in Indonesia has never stopped before.

According to weather scientist Koh Tieh Yong from the Singapore University of Social Sciences, monsoon is closely tied to changing wind directions.

Singapore experiences two distinct ones, the south-west monsoon season from June to September, and the north-east monsoon season from November to March.

The south-west monsoon makes the weather drier over southern Asean region, as it coincides with the Northern Hemisphere summer. To put it simply, the rainband over the Equator shifts over to the northern Asean region.

On the other hand, the north-east monsoon reverses the whole thing and shifts the rainband south over Singapore. Hence, when the Southern Hemisphere experiences summer, it brings heavier rain from November to January.

You’ll notice something: October is missing from the monsoon seasons. Which means either the south-west monsoon lasts longer or the north-east monsoon comes earlier.

And that’s when the inter-monsoon season comes in, because the south-west monsoon is expected to end soon. With that, the ASMC forecasts that more rain is expected for next week. Winds are expected to be light and variable in direction during this season too.

This means more rainy weathers, hard-to-get-up mornings, sleep-in-weekends, and most importantly, no-haze-monday.

Oh yeah.