SINGAPORE: More cool and rainy weather is expected this week due to a monsoon surge, said the Meteorological Service Singapore on Wednesday January 25. The agency said that Singapore and the surrounding area have been experiencing such weather conditions since Sunday, which is the first day of the current surge.
The monsoon surge is a strengthening of winds over the South China Sea, which causes extensive rainclouds to form over the surrounding region, according to the Met Service, which is under the National Environment Agency NEA Singapore, experiences two to four surges on average during each northeast monsoon season, and each surge lasts from one to five days.
The Met Service said that this is the first monsoon surge occurrence in the current northeast monsoon season.