In July, visitors to the Singapore Food Festival can sample all sorts of authentic Asian cuisine.Like the rest of Southeast Asia, Singapore's climate is hot and humid.
June, July and August are the most pleasant months to visit Singapore, notes the World Guides website, as you are less likely to experience high humidity and heavy rainfall than at other times.
“Generally, mean temperatures tend to rise gradually and that gives us the opportunity to adapt.But, he added: “Even though it can’t kill you, it still can affect your life.”It looks like the email address you entered is not valid.Copyright© Mediacorp 2020.
Singapore's rainfall exceeds 90 inches per year. Cycling path network in Singapore to treble by 2030. Mediacorp Pte Ltd. All rights reserved.related media assets (image or videos) available. Published on Jan 17, 2019 Singapore is a tiny country, but it's managed to become an Asian economic hub. Yet, it is increasingly clear that adaptation by itself has a limit in reducing Singapore's vulnerability to climate change, especially with sea level rise.Mitigation of GHG emissions is sorely needed, in keeping with the Paris pledges, in Singapore and elsewhere.While this current year of climate action has led to undoubted and important increases in local awareness, it has also seen the belated announcement of a Singapore carbon tax of $5 per tonne of GHG emissions, to be implemented next year. It can actually be quite lethal for us.”Professor Matthias Roth of the department of geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS) attributed the rising temperatures to global warming and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect – caused by the heat generated from human activities and trapped by urban surfaces such as buildings and roads.For example, Dr Roth and programme host Mr Joshua Lim measured the temperature in rural Lim Chu Kang, an area of farms and forests, at a balmy 24.8 deg C one night.The temperature in built-up Orchard Road that same night was measured at 29.1 deg C – four degrees warmer.One giant contributor to the UHI effect: The reliance on air-conditioners. Dr Roth doesn’t think so.“The research that has not really shown that greening initiatives have a beneficial effect on the local microclimate in terms of reducing the actual urban heat island effect,” he said.In October 2018, the United Nations released a paper asserting that the world had just 12 years to slash carbon emissions by nearly half, or risk a climate catastrophe.
This summer has seen a spate of destructive extreme weather worldwide and has led some to wonder if climate change is a factor for these events happening.As recently as five years ago, attributing a link between climate change and extreme weather was a difficult task. The socio-political effect and consequences of these climate refugees in this region are as yet unknown.Clearly, Singapore's present climate change adaptation has been successful in staving off the worst impacts we have seen elsewhere. But a log-in is still required for our PDFs.Share gift link below with your friends and family.They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account.Please verify your e-mail to continue reading the article.The gift link for this subscriber-only article has expired.Get unlimited access to The Straits Times and more at S$ 0.99/month.You have reached your limit of subscriber-only articles this month 198402868E. Thirteen out of the past 15 years have been the warmest in Singapore's historical record since 1929.In recent years, days when maximum temperatures exceed 34 deg C and nights when minimum temperatures exceed 26 deg C have been more frequent.Depending on future global GHG emission levels, climate modelling by the Meteorological Service Singapore projects further average temperature increases of between 1.4 deg C and 4.6 deg C, as well as more frequent warmer days and nights by 2100.These temperature changes are due to larger-scale GHG emissions and the local "heat island" effect directly resulting from Singapore's urbanisation.
Climate and Weather Influences. Being close to sea level, some low-lying areas of Singapore are vulnerable to flooding during periods of excessive rain. Given the right wind direction, smoke particulates from wildfires in Borneo and Sumatra can reach Singapore as transboundary haze.While commendable cross-border preventive action within Asean has arguably lowered wildfire and haze risks since 2015, such efforts have occurred in the absence of El Nino conditions.The effectiveness of these adaptation measures will be tested when El Nino events occur again.The last and most severe climate impact Singapore faces in the next 50 years and beyond is sea level rise. This service is not intended for persons residing in the EU.
It is almost 1 deg C hotter today than in the 1950s.What is even grimmer news – Singapore’s maximum daily temperatures could reach 35 to 37 deg C by year 2100, if carbon emissions continue to rise at the same rate, warned Dr Muhammad Eeqmal Hassim, senior research scientist with the MSS Centre for Climate Research Singapore.Other countries already experience hotter temperatures than this - but the reason this spells trouble for Singapore, is that humidity is high here all year round.This could lead to potentially deadly situations, as the programme Why It Matters found out. All rights reserved We have been experiencing some problems with subscriber log-ins and apologise for the inconvenience caused. The island lies only 1 degree north of the equator and thus has a tropical rain forest climate.
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