Hot and dry until August

Relief from the heat: Children cooling off at the water fountain in front of Petronas Twins Towers in Kuala Lumpur. — AZHAR MAHFOF / The Star

PETALING JAYA: The hot and dry season has begun and is expected to last until end of August.

The country is smack in the active phase of the south-west monsoon, according to Malay-sian Meteoro­logical Department’s National Weather Centre senior meteorologist Dr Hisham Mohd Anip.