Singaporean Rain

Coming from Southern California to Singapore results in a lot of getting used to, on a lot of different fronts. Cuisine, culture, and especially cataclysmic weather fronts.

Having grown up in the Northwest, I have no reason to be enthralled with rain.  There a wet day was as common as being called to dinner.  We went days, weeks, even months without seeing the sun all while being dripped on by those Alaskan storms caught over Puget Sound.

So why has Singapore's rainy season been such a lure.  Late November and all of December are rain days.  Everyday. Sometimes in the morning, more likely in the afternoon and evening, but always daily. Perhaps the shear intensity and instant effect have me completely under their spell.

I recall seeing an old Sean Connery movie where he played a scientist in the Amazon.  One of the scene featured an "instant on" rain storm, and I thought, what a Hollywood effect that was. Now, I stand corrected, and I totally get it.Tropical rainstorms are magnificent works of Mother Natures art.

Water drops the size of Brazil nuts, thunder and lightening pummeling the atmosphere, all packaged in a relatively quick interlude, make up storms I only saw occasionally in places like Chicago and New York.  Here they're taken in stride, literally and figuratively.

Just for fun, here are two I captured recently.  One at night and one in the afternoon.  Use you're super headphones to take in the 5.1 surround sound on the thunder.