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After two consecutive days of downpours leading to landslides and flooding around the island, the rain finally began to subside yesterday, with swaths of blue skies and rays of sunshine emerging in some places for the first time in 2021.
Mercury slowly rose and water levels receded in flooded areas, although the weather remained cool and windy with an average temperature of 24 degrees C at the Changi weather station at 5 pm.
The lowest daily minimum temperature was 22.3 degrees C in Jurong West yesterday, down from 21.1 degrees C recorded in Newton on Saturday.
Work began to repair the damage inflicted, with areas in Havelock, Fort Canning and Loyang cordoned off as repairs were made.
HERITAGE TREE
In Fort Canning Park, heavy storms caused a 22-meter-tall tree on the slope of Fort Canning Hill to collapse on Saturday morning, and some of its branches landed on the protected outdoor escalators connecting the MRT station of Fort Canning with the top of the hill.
Ryan Lee, group director for Fort Canning Park and Istana at the National Parks Board, said the heritage tree, a ficus kurzii or Burmese banyan tree, had been uprooted as a result of soil failure due to consecutive days of heavy rain. .
A video that circulated on social media also showed a landslide that took place in Pasir Ris. The impact of the landslide, which took place alongside the Tampines Expressway slip road heading to Loyang Avenue on Saturday, caused seven drainage grates to collapse alongside a monsoon drain.
The access road has been closed since Saturday night as a precautionary measure, to facilitate repair work on the slope.
Heavy rains also triggered a landslide on a slope that linked Outram High School to the Furama Riverfront hotel on Saturday, near Jalan Minyak and York Hill.
There were also minor landslides on Kusu Island, Lazarus Island, and St John’s Island on Saturday.
The highest daily total rainfall recorded was 6.6mm at Simei and East Coast Parkway at 5pm yesterday, a sharp drop from the 210.6mm recorded at Changi Weather Station on Saturday.
For the next few days, thunderstorms are expected in the afternoon, with temperatures expected to range between 24 degrees C and 33 degrees C, the Singapore Meteorological Service said yesterday.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: KEVIN LIM
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