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of 90°F. No local storm signals were hoisted during the month. In August a record total of eleven tropical cyclones formed and developed over the northwest Pacific and the China Sea. Four of these came close enough to the Colony to warrant the hoisting of local storm signals. No serious threat arose, but the proximity of the storms resulted in rainfall which brought the month's total well above normal.
In September and October there were no significant departures from the normal weather patterns. Three tropical cyclones caused local signals to be hoisted but only typhoon 'Kit' produced any strong winds locally. November was the most humid on record with a mean relative humidity of 81 per cent, a figure more appro- priate to the spring. The rainfall was more than three times the normal amount. There was nothing abnormal during December.
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