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SINGAPORE – After two consecutive days of downpours causing landslides and flooding around the island, the rain finally began to subside on Sunday (January 3), with silvery 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 low temperature was 22.3 degrees C in Jurong West on Sunday (January 3), down from 21.1 degrees C recorded in Newton on Saturday (January 2).
Work began to repair the damage inflicted, with areas in Havelock, Fort Canning and Loyang cordoned off as repairs were made.
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 that 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. .
There were no visitors in the vicinity at the time, but the fallen tree damaged a section of the escalators, which have been closed until further notice.
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.
“Based on our preliminary investigations, the stability of the access road is currently unaffected,” the Land Transportation Authority (LTA) said in a Facebook post yesterday (January 3). The access road has been closed since Saturday night as a precautionary measure, to facilitate repair work on the slope.
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