There is a gigantic Cat 1 in the South China Sea. But wind is blowing north-easterly so we might get lucky.

The values you see is the Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) , the amount of energy avsilable to fuel a thunderstorm. Value of 800 above is indicative of rain.

Folks, weather forecast for Saturday 12 Sep is thundery showers, forecast to start circa 5am and to last until perhaps 12pm

Please check with the Lightning Warning System or with SDBA staff about realtime weather conditions

SDBA shall follow closely the weather advisory issued by NEA

Thunderstorm tracking, 5am to 5pm. Green means rain, orange means heavy rains, etc. The tracker changes every 4 secs

12/09/2020: 0900hrs
Blue skies. Condition looks good. 🤞🤞🤞

But....

Heavy clouds on the southwestern horizon.

12/09/2020: 1000hrs
Dark clouds on the Western horizon. It is spreading. 🤞

Lightning warning activated. Heavy thundery showers projected 1240-1330hrs.

We will update status as soon as we receive the latest

12/09/2020; 1324hrs
Lightning alert lifted. Note that it is still raining albeit light drizzling