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The humidity in Singapore is between 70-90% so you can imagine how it feels like walking around outside in that hot and humid climate. The average temperature is 25-31 Celsius degrees and thunderstorms occurs 40% of all days and rainfalls is almost like an everyday phenomenon. When I was there two days in December 2011 and one week in January 2012 I think it only rained twice, so the rainfall never bothered me, but you could hear the thunderstorms pretty often.

Since its a country with warm temperature and high humidity they have installed air conditioners in all indoor public places such as the MRT, shopping malls, Universities etc etc. The idea is good but I don’t know WHY they run the air conditioner on the maximum power and let them blow out ICE COLD air?? It was literally walking into winter in Siberia when you went inside public places.  I used to walk around in shorts and a top in Singapore because of the hot weather, but several times a day I needed to pass by indoor public places and that was not pleasant. I learned to always bring a hoodie with me…but I felt like why do they not just addjust the air conditioner so they don’t blow out ice cold air?

I was wondering if it was only me who thought it was so cold? But surveys has been made and the Singaporians themselves find the air conditioned public places to be too cold and they have faced issues such as flu, cough and dry skin.

Many organisations are now looking over their air conditioning temperatures and I hope they will do a change soon. I don’t think it’s healthy with the transistions from hot and high humidty to ice cold and dry air several times a day. And imagine the people who are acctually working in the shopping malls, or the public institutions. Well, I hope things will change :-)