“With climate change, many countries in the world, including Singapore, are seeing rising temperatures,” the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment and the National Environment Agency said in a release. “It is therefore important for members of the public to adapt.”
Singapore has launched an initiative to inform residents of heat stress levels and offer guidelines as rising temperatures heighten health risks.
The plan includes advisories on three levels of risk to heat stress — low, moderate and high — based on a measure that factors in air temperature, humidity, wind speed and solar radiation. The readings will be derived from nine sensors across Singapore, with the network to be expanded over the next two years.
