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MSS Launches Mobile Weather App ‘WEATHER@SG’

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The Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) has just launched its weather mobile application, ‘Weather@SG’, in conjunction with World Meteorological Day (WMD) 2016.

2015 was the warmest year on record, and Singapore similarly recorded one of its warmest years in history. The year 2015, together with 1997 and 1998 saw annual mean temperatures of 28.3 degrees Celsius, exceeding the climatological average by 0.8 degrees Celsius. In years to come, there are indications of the daily mean temperatures increasing further, and the climatologically drier periods becoming drier and the wetter periods becoming wetter.

2015 was also the second driest year on record, with only 1,266.8mm of rainfall recorded last year. The year 1997 still holds the record of being the driest year. The drier weather in the second half of 2015 was exacerbated by the prevailing El Niño, which in turn contributed to one of the longest and most severe transboundary haze events experienced in Singapore.

With indications that hotter, drier and wetter weather conditions could become more frequent in Singapore due to the prevailing strong El Niño weather phenomenon, timely weather information will become increasingly important. To facilitate a convenient means to check Singapore’s official weather forecasts and observations wherever you are, MSS has launched its free weather mobile application, ‘Weather@SG’. The ‘Weather@SG’ mobile application can be downloaded from both the Apple App Store and the Android Play Store.

The ‘Weather@SG’ mobile application provides users with access to the latest national forecasts, observations as well as warnings and advisories. Through the ‘Weather@SG’ application, mobile phone users can receive push notifications of heavy rain warnings and other hazards. The weather mobile application has features to detect a user’s location and automatically display the 2-hour Nowcast and the current weather conditions such as temperature, rain amount and wind information. In addition, graphical temperature and rainfall trends for the past 12 hours are available. Users will also be able to view the rain areas over the island and up to 240km away.

 

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