The mercury plummeted to 14.9 degrees Celsius at Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong’s highest peak, on Wednesday morning under the influence of a dry northeast monsoon that is bringing fine and dry weather to the territory. Tate’s Cairn also recorded temperatures of 17.8 degrees, while The Peak was 19.8 degrees. However, it was warmer in urban parts of the city, with the Hong Kong Observatory headquarters in Tsim Sha Tsui recording 23.4 degrees.
Temperatures in urban parts of the city will fall to as little as 21 degrees Celsius on Friday, when humidity levels will be as low as 35%. Lows for this week will range between 21 and 23 degrees, with expected maximum temperatures going no higher than 28 degrees. The next few days will generally be sunny, which will be followed by periods with a few showers.
Typhoon Yinxing, which is currently about 580km northeast of Manila, will intensify to Severe Typhoon strength on Thursday. It will come within 400km of the SAR on Sunday, when it will weaken to a typhoon before moving southwest towards Vietnam. However, the observatory says that under the combined effect of the northeast monsoon and Typhoon Yinxing, “it will be windy over the south China coastal waters during the weekend and early next week”.
Despite there also being spells of cool weather in Hong Kong last month, the city’s weather forecaster said it was the warmest October on record, with the highest monthly mean maximum temperature (30.3 degrees), monthly mean temperature (27.3 degrees) and monthly mean minimum temperature (25.4 degrees) being the highest ever recorded for the month.
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