Morning Rain Was So Heavy, a Road Couldn’t Be Used & PUB Officers Have to be Deployed

To stir from your sleep to the sound of a downpour – if you have nowhere you need to be, most people would agree that a rainy morning is one of the best times to sleep in.

However, if you are out at all and caught in the morning rush to class or the job you do not really like, it is just one wet and hectic morning.

Particularly if the road you take to work is flooded.

Flash Flooding at Craig Road

To nobody’s surprise, a sudden heavy downpour will usually result in some flooding.

This morning at 9.08 am, 14th August, the National Environment Agency (NEA) warned us of just that. They informed the public that the heavier rain was expected to last an hour, from 9.35 am to 10.35 am, with flash floods a possibility.

Heavy rain warning – Moderate to heavy thundery showers with gusty wind are expected over many areas of Singapore between 9.35am and 10.35am. PUB says flash floods may occur in the event of heavy rain.

— NEA (@NEAsg) August 14, 2020

Subsequently, Public Utilities Board (PUB) promptly reported at 10.02 am that a flash flood had occurred on Craig Road, rendering traffic impassable. To alleviate the situation, PUB officers were deployed to the scene.

Fortunately, an update came in shortly after to report that the flood had subsided at 10.10 am.

Weather Forecast for August

As most would have noticed, the start of the week was warm and humid. But the temperature has gone down some after the rain on Thursday and Friday morning.

This adheres to the forecast released by the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) which dictated the first half of August would see lower than normal rainfall over most of the country with some warm and humid nights.

However, “widespread thundery showers with gusty winds” were due on a couple of mornings.

According to The Straits Times, a weather scientist at Singapore University of Social Sciences, Associate Professor Koh Tieh Yong, explained that the heavy downpours occurred due to the hot weather in the past few days.

The warm air evaporates at a high rate in a squall, generating high amounts of precipitation and a correspondingly large amount of rain.

“This phenomenon is common during the south-west monsoon season which takes place every year from late May to September.”

Hopefully, the heavy rain this morning did not affect a significant amount of people since most of us are supposed to be working from home.

Although students would probably have faced all the inconveniences of travelling in the rain.

Anyway, if you’re one of the unfortunate ones who can’t work from home, it’s going to rain every single day for the next four days, so be sure to ready your umbrella, okay?