It's World Meteorological Day , a day that commemorates the coming into force of the Convention establishing the World Meteorological Organisation on 23 March 1950. And what better way to pay tribute to it than by turning the spotlight on Meteorological Service Singapore .Our Little Red Dot might be celebrating its 57th birthday this year, but our weather records go back more than one and a half centuries.
Since then, Singapore experienced its highest monthly total rainfall in Dec 2006 as recorded at Buangkok Station, and its driest month in 2014 — only 0.2mm of rain was recorded at Changi Climate Station in February that year.It wasn't until 1929 that a full-scale meteorological station — Singapore's first — was set up at Mount Faber. That year marked the start of Singapore's temperature records.
Since then, some of us experienced the hottest day ever on April 17, 1983 and the coolest on Valentine's Day 1989 .Not many know this, but Meteorological Service Singapore — which became part of the National Environment Agency under the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources in 2002 — is located at level four of Terminal 2 at Changi Airport.
Today, the MSS comprises a network of meteorological observing stations, both manned and automated. While Changi, Seletar, Sembawang, Tengah, and Paya Lebar are the locations of five manned stations, there is also an Upper Air Observatory located at Upper Paya Lebar as well as 60 automatic weather stations dotted across our island.
You can learn how the MSS observes the weather — from how it measures rainfall and surface winds to its sophisticated meteorological radar and satellite systems —
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