Macao has just experienced its wettest summer in 15 years, according to data from the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) that has been analysed by Ponto Final.
Monthly average rainfall between June and 21 September was 375.3 millimetres. September saw the most precipitation, with 541.4 millimetres in the first three weeks of the month.
The typhoons Soala and Haikui are mostly to blame. They brought considerable deluges of rain to Macao in late August and early September, causing significant flooding but leaving the city relatively unscathed.
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One has to go as far back as 2008 to find a wetter summer, Ponto Final reports. That year, June alone saw 1,204 millimetres of rain and the monthly rainfall average was 540.1 millimetres.
Going back further, the summers of 2001 and 2002 were also wetter than this year’s, averaging 518.3 and 381.1 millimetres per month respectively.
SMG has attributed an increase in extreme weather events over the past seven years to global warming.
