Warm and dry weather to persist for rest of July, says the weatherman

SINGAPORE — Feeling the heat since the start of July? Then expect the warm and dry weather conditions to persist for the second half of the month, said the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS).

In an update on Monday (July 16), the weather agency said that the warm and dry weather conditions “are forecast to persist on most days for the rest of the month”.

The daily temperatures are expected to range between 24°C to 34°C and that the daily maximum temperature could reach a high of around 35°C “on days with little or no rain”.

In the next two weeks, short-duration thundery showers can still be expected on three to five days, mainly in the late morning and early afternoon, said the MSS.

It added: “On one or two days during this period, the passage of a Sumatra squall from the Strait of Malacca to the South China Sea could bring widespread thundery showers and gusty winds over the island between the predawn hours and early morning.”

In a review of the first half of July, the weather agency said that the fortnight received less rainfall compared to the last fortnight of June 2018 “due to stable atmospheric conditions that prevailed over the southern South-east Asia region”.

“This brought dry and warm weather conditions on most days during the first half of July 2018,” said the MSS.

It added that the daily maximum temperatures for the first fortnight of July 2018 ranged between 29°C and 33°C on most days, with the highest daily maximum temperature recorded at 34.4°C on July 12.

About two-thirds of the country also received below-normal rainfall in the first half of July.

“The lowest rainfall of 15.2 mm (84 per cent below average) was recorded at Queenstown (while) rainfall was highest at Changi where 124.2 mm (67 per cent above average) was recorded,” said the MSS.