October 2026

The first serious downpour of the wet season tends to find every shortcut taken during the dry months. A gully that was never quite cleared backs up across a car park, a temporary site discharge overwhelms a channel that was sized for something else, and a length of drain laid to a lazy fall finally shows why fall was specified in the first place. None of it is a surprise to the people who saw it coming. September is a good month to work through this, because the calendar gives a clear run before conditions get difficult. Singapore's wettest stretch is...