Weather

In short the weather here is like none I have experienced before, the humidity hits you like a wall when you step out the relative comfort of an air conditioned building and cold showers are currently the best part of my day. The closest I came to this heat was Kansas in July. The heat here though is different, 80% humidity means that even after a slow paced walk you sweat like crazy. It rains most days however and this cools things down slightly, the rain is normally very hard but only lasts a short time. Even so this doesn't do much to relieve the humidity. Exercise has to be restricted before 9am and after 7pm. I have no idea how the laborers and manual workers get by here but I have seen tents erected near a building site so I can only imagine they use that to escape the heat.

Although the sun doesn't shine everyday in Singapore and invariably it is cloudy you can still feel yourself getting burnt so its important to consider this when leaving the house. I of course learnt the hard way and after a day at the pool woke up looking a spot rouge !

Although there are no real distinct seasons in Singapore the cooler months are, I have been told, around Oct to Dec, the full humidity hits at the same summer months as Europe so June, July, August.

At the moment though I get to the point where walking more than 10 minutes leads me to call a taxi and I don't want to go into the amount I sweated at my first Singapore Cricket trials.

Hopefully I'll acclimatise soon but this makes a Barcelona summer seem cool ! All I can say at this point is thank god for swimming pools, air conditioning and cold showers...