SINGAPORE — Heavy rain and gusty winds lashed the island yesterday, felling trees in several locations and causing brief flooding in a shopping mall.

The National Environment Agency issued warnings of heavy thundery showers with gusty wind over many parts of Singapore on Twitter in the afternoon.

PUB also posted on Twitter about high water levels at Leng Kee Road and Prince Philip Avenue.

Members of the public who called the MediaCorp hotline sent pictures of fallen trees at various locations, including an uprooted tree on a hill beside Holland Avenue Block 2 and another at Kaki Bukit Avenue 4 near a flyover.

In the east, several sections of Tampines Mall were flooded yesterday as the inlets, which were meant to channel rainwater collected from the rooftop of the mall to the external drainage, could not cope with the excessive rainwater.

Responding to TODAY’s queries, the mall’s marketing communications manager Sarah Lua said its staff noticed an overflow of water at parts of level two of the mall at about 3.10pm.

She said the unusually heavy amount of rainfall over a short period of time caused the rainwater to overflow from the rainwater inlets and some excess water flowed to small parts of the common areas on levels two and three of the shopping mall.

“We immediately cordoned off the affected areas,” said Ms Lua.

The mall resumed full normal operations at about 4.25pm after it had been entirely cleaned up, added Ms Lua.