{"id":29724,"date":"2026-02-19T19:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=29724"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:36:35","slug":"flash-flood-risk-in-jurong-east-and-pioneer-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=29724","title":{"rendered":"Flash flood risk in Jurong East and Pioneer areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 Commuters are urged to avoid two locations in the west of Singapore and a road in the Bukit Timah area owing to the risk of flash floods on the afternoon of Feb 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The public should avoid Jurong Town Hall Road, from Jurong East Street 11 to Jurong East Street 12, <!-- -->and<!-- --> Pandan Road in the Pioneer area for the next hour, said national water agency PUB in advisories posted on social media at around 4pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a later alert at around 4.50pm, PUB urged the public to avoid Dunearn Road, from Yarwood Avenue to Binjai Park, in the Bukit Timah area for the next hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Heavy rain was expected over the southern, western and central areas of the island from 4.15pm to 5pm, it said, citing the National Environment Agency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Showers are expected over most parts of the island in the afternoons and evenings on the first few days of the second half of February, said the Meteorological Service Singapore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Following this, conditions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/some-wet-weather-in-second-half-of-february-before-drier-conditions-return?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">are expected to turn relatively drier<\/p>\n<p><\/a>, though brief localised thundery showers may still happen on several afternoons, said the weatherman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/public-urged-to-avoid-areas-in-pioneer-jurong-east-due-to-risk-of-flash-floods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Commuters are urged to avoid two locations in the west of Singapore and a road in the Bukit Timah area owing to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}