SINGAPORE: Flash floods occurred in multiple locations on Sunday ( Apr 20 ) as heavy rain hit parts of Singapore.
Kings Road, Bukit Timah Road, Coronation Walk and the bridge of Stevens Road and Balmoral Road were hit by display storms between 5pm and 6pm on Sunday.
PUB officers were deployed to the affected locations, according to alerts on PUB’s Telegram channel and the National Environment Agency ( NEA ) mobile application.
Members of the public were advised to avoid those places.
NEA said on its site that there would be reasonable to large torrential rains with “gusty breeze” over southwestern, western and central regions of Singapore between 5. 20pm and 6. 15pm.
Instructions of beam storms at Bukit Timah Road and Kings Road were issued at 5. 05pm.
Similar emails for the intersection of Stevens Road and Balmoral Road and Coronation Walk were issued at 5. 20pm and 5. 35pm both.
In pictures and videos sent to CNA, trucks were seen driving through the display storm at Balmoral Road, while a river at the park port in Ulu Pandan overflowed.
The storms at Bukit Timah Road and the intersection of Stevens Road and Balmoral Road subsided at 5. 40pm, while the flash storms at Coronation Walk and Kings Road subsided at 6. 10pm and 6. 20pm both.