Your exasperated, sweaty claims of Singapore getting hotter and hotter these days aren't all that untrue after all. According to the Meteorological Service, our little red dot has been growing even redder with temperatures rising at twice the rate of the global average.
An average increase of 0.25 degrees Celcius per decade was recorded here between 1948 and 2015 — contrasting with the global warming rate of 0.12 degrees Celcius over a similar period. That's not all though; the number of warm days and warm nights have also increased.
2015 was already noted to be among the warmest in Singapore's history, with an annual mean temperature of 28.3 degrees Celcius, which exceeds the average of 0.8 degrees Celcius. Last year was event the second driest year on record, just behind 1997, which only had 1,118.9mm of rainfall recorded.