{"id":13731,"date":"2011-09-20T07:33:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T11:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13731"},"modified":"2011-09-20T07:33:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T11:33:30","slug":"heat-humidity-and-rain-forecast-for-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/heat-humidity-and-rain-forecast-for-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat, humidity and rain forecast for Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The F1 world is expecting a warm, humid and possibly stormy and wet grand prix under lights in Singapore this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It has already been raining heavily this week in the Asian city-state, and more of the same is forecast for the weekend, set to be the fourth floodlit Singapore street race.<\/p>\n<p>In previous years, drivers have expressed concerns about the effect rain would have on visibility around the tight layout, with the bright lights potentially reflecting off the raindrops and puddles.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the skies amid the Singapore skyline are already hazy at present, due to forest fires burning in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>And the street circuit &#8220;dries incredibly slowly&#8221; due to the high humidity, observed Mark Webber after some Singapore rain last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something I haven&#8217;t seen in my entire career,&#8221; said the Australian.<\/p>\n<p>Triple world champion Sir Jackie Stewart also commented on the challenge of Singapore rain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In daylight, we can see beyond the track if we&#8217;re heading into rain.\u00a0 But here, the light is contained on the circuit and everything else is dark,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F1 world is expecting a warm, humid and possibly stormy and wet grand prix under lights in Singapore this weekend. It has already been raining heavily this week in the Asian city-state, and more of the same is forecast for the weekend, set to be the fourth floodlit Singapore street race. In previous years, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,2210],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13732,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions\/13732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}