Highest temperature in Singapore on July 27?

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Market context

The real-world event is the hottest temperature recorded at Singapore Changi Airport on 27 July, and the market resolves against the official Wunderground daily history entry for that station. With a noon UTC settlement cut-off, traders are effectively betting on the day’s peak reading rather than a fixed end-of-day close, which matters because Singapore’s warmest hours often arrive later in the local afternoon.[1]

A 0% crowd-implied yes looks unusually low for a tropical-location temperature market, especially when Polymarket’s own book currently puts 31°C and 30°C well ahead of other outcomes.[1] Singapore’s July climate is typically hot and humid, with holiday-weather data showing about 150 mm of rain across 19 days, so cloud cover and convection can still suppress or cap the daily maximum.[2] That kind of distribution usually leaves the highest-temperature band clustered in the low 30s rather than breaking sharply higher.

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