At 3 pm today, a DG mate sent around a series of photos including this one taken from her office at Republic Plaza 15 minutes before.
It sure looked like what we thought it was. But when I emailed it to The Mythbuster, he quickly established that it was actually a waterspout. Apparently waterspouts appear from time to time in the tropics, and in fact there was one last year near Sentosa. I went to read about it in good old Wikipedia. It was pretty fascinating stuff.
So our weather is not as boring as it appears to be. I am told there was in fact a real tornado in Singapore in the 1950s. There was a hurricane some years ago, and once it rained catfish.
One funny thing that came out of it was this. I emailed the picture to my department, and my colleagues' first question (cynical lawyers we all are) was: "Are the photos doctored?" I said quickly and unthinkingly, "I don't think so, they were sent over by my church friend". And they said, "ok, then must be real".
Good to know that Christians still have quite a good reputation around here. Hoho...
