Closer to home, on Star Wars Day (May 4), 65% of average monthly rainfall fell that one morning. The sudden deluge after numerous dry, scorching weeks forced the postponement of the Liv Golf tournament in Sentosa and delayed or cancelled flights out at Changi and Seletar. Not to be spared in North Asia, Taiwanese band Mayday was forced to move the encore session of their first show online and indoors and cancelled the second show on May Day itself.
The world had a wet start to May as a string of water-related disasters struck. The worst floods to hit Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul in 80 years killed 39 people. This was dwarfed by the loss of over 200 lives in Kenya’s popular Masai Mara nature reserve after one of the tributaries of the Mara River burst its banks causing flash floods.
