S’pore is Going to Be Hot in the First 2 Weeks of August, With Temperature Up to 35°C in Some Days

Are you sick and tired of the rain? Wished that you can go to the office without having to endure wet feet for once? Well, here’s a message from the first two weeks of August:

“Wish granted.”

S’pore is Going to Be Hot for in the first Fortnight of August, With Temperature Up to 35°C in Some Days

According to the weathermen of Singapore, the first two weeks of August is going to be like Singapore’s namesake: A sunny island in the tropics.

Here’s the TL; DR:

• Winds are expected to blow from the southeast or southwest, so if you want a cool breezy house, remember to open your south-facing windows.
• On some of the days, low-level winds will strengthen and blow from the west so westies are in for a good time.
• The monsoon rainband is expected to blow away from Southeast Asia, which means Singapore will be drier than the months of June and July.
• However, Singapore will still experience rainy weather; “short-duration moderate to heavy thundery showers” are expected over parts of Singapore in the late morning to early afternoon.

Ditch Your Heavy Jackets

Overall, despite the rain predicted, Singapore is like to be warmer and drier.

Temperatures are predicted to over within the 25 and 34 degrees Celsius range on most days, and it could reach as high as 35 degrees Celsius on some days (Read: Time to get some Uniqlo AIRism clothes liao).

You won’t be able to escape the heat at nights too. The MSS forecast that Singapore will experience some warm and humid nights with temperatures reaching 28 degrees Celsius.

What That Means:

So you’ve read through the technical details above and you’re thinking, what exactly does that mean for non-weathermen like me?

Well, it means you should continue bringing your umbrella out but not expect to use it too much.

It also means that you might have to switch on your aircon for an even longer period of time.

And finally, if you’ve not had any, it’s time to find clothes that are easily breathable and drink a lot of water.

You can listen to the experts below for even more technical details:

P.S.: When I said bring your umbrella out, I wasn’t kidding. For the next four days, thundery showers are predicted for the late morning and early afternoon.

P.P.S: Don’t take this as a chance to hit the beach or you’ll become one of the #Covidiots that’s been patronising East Coast and Sentosa.

And now, you should be wondering: siao liao, warm weather, would there be more forest fires and therefore…haze?

You might be one who hasn’t downloaded our app, so please do so now.

And there’s a chance that it might stay wet in the coming weeks, leading to fewer forest fires.

More Rain Might be Coming to S’pore Even During Dry Season Due to ‘La Nina’

On 16 July 2020, weather.gov.sg, which is part of NEA, indicated that the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) monitoring system has changed from “Neutral” to “La Nina Watch” status this month.

If NEA is trying to impress us with their chim words, they’ve succeeded.

So what does that mean?

The simplest explanation would be that during this dry season, there could be more rain than usual, which is not normal, but obviously a respite for us.

The simple but still a little complicated explanation is that based on some high-tech thingy to analyse stuff such as the Pacific sea surface temperatures (SSTs), low level winds, cloudiness (using outgoing longwave radiation), and sub-surface temperatures, NEA is now seeing whether La Nina is coming.

You see, ever since cockroaches live in Singapore, two climate phenomena could cause changes in temperature and rainfall, and it’s caused by the temperature of the sea.

With El Nino, it’ll raise the temperature. When it occurs, weatherman would call it the El Nino effect, though we just say it’s hot lah.

And it’s not something that occurs every year—it comes and go, and so does La Nina.

La Nina is the opposite of El Nino, which brings rain and cooler temperature. This is why NEA is “watching”—analysis of the environment shows that La Nina might be coming, which disrupts the usual dry season.

However, according to a weather scientist at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, Associate Professor Koh Tieh Yong, La Nina might come in September 2020 instead—a tad too late since the forest fires would have occurred this or next month.

The experts in weather.gov.sg said that based on the models, La Nina-like conditions might occur in the second half of 2020, “but the spread for possible outcomes currently is still too wide to indicate consensus on the exact strength and onset timing of the La-Nina conditions.”

So, could that explain why it’s going to be hot, yet rainy, in the first two weeks of August?

There are two things that are not easy to predict: the weather and next week’s 4D numbers. So just bring your umbrella and prepare more masks lah.