the NorthEastern Monsoon has arrived ........

on my blog site I have a bit about the Weather in Singapore...

tropical; hot, humid, rainy; two distinct monsoon seasons - 

Northeastern monsoon (December to March)
Southwestern monsoon (June to September)
inter-monsoon - frequent afternoon and early evening thunderstorms.

what it says is that we are to expect the NorthEastern Monsoon between December and March.... but for those that were in Singapore last Thursday you will KNOW that it has arrived early!!!

• Bukit Timah canal burst its banks for the first time in years

• Was six times the intensity of an average shower here!

•  one of the worst floods in recent years.

•  dumped enough water into the Bukit Timah Canal alone to fill 115 Olympic-size swimming pool. 

•  floodwaters were knee-deep

THE Bukit Timah canal burst its banks for the first time in years on Thursday, unable to contain the afternoon's downpour. As a result, two stretches of Bukit Timah Road - from Coronation Road to Third Avenue and from Wilby Road to Blackmore Road - were underwater in one of the worst floods in recent years.

The storm, six times the intensity of an average shower here, drenched the Bukit Timah area with close to half a month's worth of rain in about half an hour, said the PUB, the national water agency.

Between 1.20pm and 1.50pm alone, 92mm of rain fell. The total amount of rainfall logged in the area was 110mm - accounting for 43 per cent of the average monthly rainfall for November.

The downpour dumped enough water to fill 115 Olympic-size swimming pools into the Bukit Timah canal, overwhelming it.

At their height, the floodwaters were knee-deep, throwing traffic along Bukit Timah into chaos. The waters subsided after 50 minutes, but traffic tailbacks petered out only at 3.15pm, said the Land Transport Authority.

the above info from the Singapore Straits website.

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