All good things must come to an end, and so did the cold spell that dazzled Singaporeans across the whole of last week, when temperatures dipped to as low as 21°C.
But thanks to the annoying complaints by some sensitive folks who weren’t happy with being “too cold” here, we no longer have that climate anymore. Yes, we’re outrightly blaming you guys.
Since the start of the week, we’ve bid adieu to the lovely chill (temperatures have already gone way above 29°C), but at least we now have the knowledge that last week’s cold spell was the longest here in the last ten years.
This is according to records from the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS), which informed The Straits Times that typically, monsoon surges that affect Singapore only last three days at most. These surges commonly hit Singapore between December and March, where sudden increases in wind speed bring cold air from the Northern Hemisphere to our equatorial region, with rain as a result.
“In the last 10 years, there was no cold spell of five days or more with minimum temperatures between 21 °C and 22°C,” an MSS spokesman said to ST. Seems like last week was momentous then — Singapore experienced and enjoyed five days of chilly weather from Wednesday to Sunday.
It was cold and windy enough for folks to don trenchcoats outside, and who could blame them? Temperatures dipped to a low of 21.2 °C in Jurong West and Admiralty on Sunday morning. That’s pretty darn close to the coldest we ever got — 19°C recorded on Feb 14, 1989, at Paya Lebar.
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