Singapore’s drought ends
The rain began about a week ago, and look what the trees produced! I imagine the mosquitoes will resume their reign very soon, but in the meantime it’s very lovely.
The rain began about a week ago, and look what the trees produced! I imagine the mosquitoes will resume their reign very soon, but in the meantime it’s very lovely.
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February 4th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Hello Lara,
I just happened to hit your blog while I was searching for the information of drought in SIngapore because I wanted to know how this spell of extreme dry condition affects the nature and any consequence. I felt pain a bit these days whenever I see many tall or short trees start withering and craving for the rain! I thought now it is a monsoon season here in Feb, not a dry season. So this dry days also occurred around this time last year.
I just came back to Singapore from my two week staying in Tokyo(I am Japanese) and it was a constant reminder I really live right under the equator once I stepped out of the plain and felt warm hot mass of air suppressing my entire body inside out.
Hope it will rain today, or tomorrow, or this weekend!
March 8th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
My neighbor’s been here longer than I, and says the weather goes in 12-day cycles of wet and dry. It’s not unusual to have 10 days without much rain, but you can’t count on the monsoons to be uniformly wet, or the non-monsoon months to be particularly dry.
Either way, there’s no escape from the masses of warm damp air, so the best thing is to think of it as a moisturizing sweat bath. Too bad the trees can’t think of it that way, but it’s not as dry as California, no matter how you slice it.