The past few months have seen sweltering weather take hold in Singapore, with precious few days of rain to provide relief.
Unfortunately, it’s about to get worse — more warm days are expected in the second half of June.
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The next two weeks will also see less rainfall, resulting in a comparatively drier spell.
In a weather advisory on Friday (16 June), Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) said there’ll be more warm days in the coming fortnight, compared with the first half of June.
This comes as the prevailing Southwest Monsoon is set to persist in the second half of the month.
Exactly how warm will it be?
MSS predicts that the daily maximum temperature will soar to 34°C “on most days”.
Worse still, this could go up further to as high as 35°C on a few days — typically when there’s less cloud cover.
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Singaporeans will sadly see little respite even at night.
We can expect warm and humid conditions on some nights when the temperature hovers around 29°C.
This will happen when the prevailing winds from the southeast or south blow warm and humid air from the sea over to us.
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Residents of southeastern Singapore will be more likely to experience these muggy conditions.
Compounding the hot climate will be the relatively drier weather compared with the first two weeks of June.
This will be due to the presence of a dry air mass, which may bring “relatively fair and warm weather” on a few days.
That’s why MSS expects the second half of June to have below-average rainfall.
However, the total rainfall for the entire month should be near average over most of Singapore, they said.
Despite the drier weather, some days may still bring localised short-duration thundery showers for some relief.
These are expected to take place in the afternoon over parts of the island, MSS said.
The wet weather will occur when there’s a convergence of prevailing winds with the sea breeze.
Perhaps thankfully, there will also be widespread thundery showers with gusty winds.
These will happen on only one or two days, and between the pre-dawn hours and morning, so enjoy the cooler weather while you can.
They’ll be due to Sumatra squalls, caused by strong daytime heating of the earth’s surface.
Unfortunately, it seems we won’t have much respite from the warm weather yet, so crank up the aircon or stay hydrated and seek shade when outdoors.
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