{"id":52933,"date":"2026-05-17T02:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52933"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:11:48","slug":"avoid-jalan-boon-lay-due-to-risk-of-flash-floods-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52933","title":{"rendered":"Avoid Jalan Boon Lay due to risk of flash floods: PUB"},"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<!-- --> National water agency PUB<!-- --> alerted motorists to avoid an area in Jurong West following a deluge on the <!-- -->morning of May 16<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">At 9.50am, PUB said Jalan Boon Lay (from International Road to Enterprise Road) should be avoided for the next hour due to the risk of flash floods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The weatherman had forecast short, thundery showers in the afternoon over parts of Singapore <!-- -->for the rest of May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Meteorological Service Singapore said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/short-thundery-showers-warm-weather-expected-in-singapore-till-end-of-may?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\"><span class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">Sumatra squalls may bring thundery showers and gusty winds<\/span><\/a> in the pre-dawn hours and morning on a few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Some thundery showers may also extend into the evening on a few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Total rainfall for the last two weeks of May is forecast to be near the long-term average across most parts of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On May 15<!-- -->, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/risk-of-flash-floods-near-or-at-geylang-mountbatten-and-mackenzie-roads-pub?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\"><span class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">PUB alerted motorists to avoid several locations islandwide<\/span><\/a> due to the risk of flash floods, including areas in Geylang, Mackenzie Road and the East Coast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/avoid-jalan-boon-lay-due-to-risk-of-flash-floods-pub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 National water agency PUB alerted motorists to avoid an area in Jurong West following a deluge on the morning of May 16. At&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32987,"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-52933","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\/52933","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=52933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}