The mercury dropped to 8.7 degrees Celsius at Tai Mo Shan — Hong Kong’s highest elevation — on Monday morning, while Tate’s Cairn and Ngong Ping recorded higher temperatures of 9.1 and 9.7 degrees respectively. However, it was warmer in urban parts of the city, with the Hong Kong Observatory headquarters in Tsim Sha Tsui logging 14.7 degrees.
The city will get warmer as the cloud band covering southern China dissipates on Monday, but a dry northeast monsoon will keep the weather cool over coastal areas and cold in inland parts of Hong Kong. Temperatures in urban parts of the SAR will fall to as little as 14 degrees on Sunday, and humidity levels be as low as 30% in the first half of the week.
The observatory recorded the lowest temperatures of winter so far on Sunday, as the mercury fell to 13 degrees at Tsim Sha Tsui thanks to a surge in the northeast monsoon. Temperatures also plummeted to 3.1 degrees at Tai Mo Shan and hovered between 6 and 7 degrees at Ngong Ping and Tate’s Cairn.
For more weather updates, check the Hong Kong Observatory website.
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