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Know when it's a good time for kids to play outside.
Five short updates a day on haze, heat, rain and lightning for every region of Singapore, so you can decide when the kids head outdoors.
A real update
An Overview update produced by the same system from NEA data on Saturday 24 October at 1:26pm. In the group, updates go out at 7am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm and 9pm, and the other three topics (temperature, rain and thunder, air quality) follow with their own maps.
🌤 Weather Overview · 1:26pm, Sat 24 Oct
- • 🔴 Outdoors now: Indoors for now in North, Central, West and South · lightning decides
- • By region: 🔴 North · 🟡 East · 🔴 Central · 🔴 West · 🔴 South
- • Why: Hazy air at worst, in West (PM2.5 38–98) · not too hot (heat stress up to 31°C) · rain in North, East, Central, West and South · lightning near North, East, Central, West and South
- • Better window: around 2pm today, when it's usually hazy air (PM2.5 about 83) → go, with limits.
"Usually" = this week's typical level at that hour. A rule of thumb, not NEA advice. Source: NEA / data.gov.sg.
What arrives, and when
At 7am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm and 9pm, one post in each of four topics:
Overview
An outdoors call for each region (go out, with limits, indoors), why, and a better window if there is one.
Temperature
Now, the next two hours, heat stress (WBGT) and NEA's range for the day.
Rain & Thunder
Radar and rain gauges, lightning nearby, and NEA's own two-hour forecast.
Air quality
PM2.5 for the five regions, the wind and haze outlook, and the PSI.
PM2.5 or PSI: which number to look at
1-hour PM2.5
What the air is like right now. Use it for decisions about the next hour or two, like whether to head to the playground.
24-hour PSI
An average over the past day. Use it to plan the day, and to follow NEA's and MOE's haze advisories.
Neither number is a universal safe line for every child. If your child has asthma or another condition, follow your doctor's advice and NEA's health advisories.
How to read our calls
- The region calls (go out, with limits, indoors) are Nueava's rule of thumb: the worst of air, heat, rain and lightning decides. They are not official NEA advice.
- Our two-hour estimates for temperature and PM2.5 come from simple models tested on our own hourly records, and each post shows their typical error. Rain uses NEA's own two-hour forecast.
- Every post shows the time of the readings. Data: NEA via data.gov.sg. Island-wide only: we never ask for your location.