{"id":98436,"date":"2026-11-09T12:35:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98436"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:35:01","slug":"singapore-motorists-advised-to-avoid-flash-flood-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98436","title":{"rendered":"Singapore motorists advised to avoid flash flood areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->Motorists are advised to avoid an area near Bukit Timah due to the risk of flash floods on Nov 9 in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">National water agency PUB issued an advisory on social media platform X at 12.13pm, advising motorists to avoid Mackenzie Road (near Bukit Timah Road) for the next hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Earlier, in a post on X at 11.35am,<!-- --> it advised motorists to avoid Lorong Gambir (from Lorong Penchalak to Gambir Walk),<!-- --> near Bartley,<!-- --> for the next hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">At about 11.42am, the National Environment Agency <!-- -->forecast heavy <!-- -->rain over northern, western and central areas of Singapore between 12.10pm <!-- -->and <!-- -->13.10pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Meteorological Service Singapore said that moderate to heavy thundery showers are expected over parts of Singapore in the afternoon for most of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/environment\/lower-risk-of-transboundary-haze-affecting-singapore-due-to-onset-of-inter-monsoon-nea?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=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">the first two weeks of November<\/span><\/a>. On some of these days, the showers may extend into the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The total rainfall for the two weeks is forecast to be slightly above the long-term average over most parts of the island.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/motorists-advised-to-avoid-two-areas-in-singapore-over-risk-of-flash-floods?ref\\u003dlatest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Motorists are advised to avoid an area near Bukit Timah due to the risk of flash floods on Nov 9 in the afternoon&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98437,"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-98436","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\/98436","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=98436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}