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TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1985
MINIMUM TEMPERATURES OF -2.0 DEGREES C AND O DEGREES C WERE RECORDED ON THE SAME DAY AT TAI MO SHAN AND TATE'S CAIRN RESPECTIVELY, BUT THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF HOAR FROST, WIDESPREAD FOG ON FEBRUARY 22 AND 23 RESULTED IN THE DIVERSION OF NINE IN-COMING AIRCRAFT AND THE DISRUPTION OF FERRY SERVICES.
IT WAS CLOUDY IN MARCH. THE MEAN CLOUDINESS OF 91 PER CENT WAS 15 PER CENT ABOVE AVERAGE, WHILE THE TOTAL 52.4 HOURS OF SUNSHINE WAS ONLY 52 PER CENT OF THE NORMAL AMOUNT.
RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH AMOUNTED TO 13.6 MM, ONLY A QUARTER OF THE AVERAGE FIGURE.
THE MONTH WAS ALSO CHARACTERISED BY THE FREQUENT OCCURRENCE OF FOG.
FROM MARCH 12 TO MARCH 20, FOG WAS REPORTED EVERY DAY AT WAGLAN ISLAND. THE NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE FOG DAYS IN MARCH 1984 EQUALLED THE RECORD SET IN MARCH 1980.
THE FOGGY WEATHER CAUSED THE DIVERSION OF 21 AIRCRAFT AND SEVERAL ACCIDENTS AT SEA.
APRIL WAS EXTREMELY CLOUDY. THE MEAN AMOUNT OF CLOUD, AT 94 PER CENT, EQUALLED THE RECORD ESTABLISHED IN APRIL 1934. ONLY 38.6 HOURS OF SUNSHINE WERE RECORDED DURING THE MONTH AND THIS WAS THE SHORTEST DURATION OF SUNSHINE EVER RECORDED FOR APRIL. RAIN WAS RECORDED ON 20 DAYS OF THE MONTH. THE NUMBER OF RAIN DAYS IN APRIL 1984 EQUALLED THAT IN APRIL 1926, THE SECOND HIGHEST FOR THE MONTH AFTER THE RECORD SET IN APRIL 1906,
FOG OCCURRED FROM TIME TO TIME DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE MONTH, RESULTING IN TWO SERIOUS ACCIDENTS AT SEA.
THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY SHOWERS WERE REPORTED OCCASIONALLY FROM MID-APRIL ONWARDS, BRINGING THE MONTH'S TOTAL RAINFALL TO 215.0 MM, WHICH WAS 54 PER CENT ABOVE AVERAGE.
THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOUR OCCURRED ON APRIL 17 DURING WHICH A 27-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS CARRIED AWAY BY TORRENTS AT TUEN MUN AND A 59-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS BURIED BY A MUDSLIP AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE IN TAI PO.
MAY WAS WETTER THAN NORMAL. THE TOTAL RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH WAS 468.2 MM. WHICH WAS 57 PER CENT ABOVE AVERAGE. MORE THAN ONE THIRD OF THE RAIN FELL ON MAY 30 WHEN WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY SHOWERS OCCURRED, CAUSING SERIOUS FLOODING AND NUMEROUS LANDSLIPS OVER VARIOUS PARTS OF HONG KONG.
THE TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL IN JUNE WERE NORMAL.
WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ON JUNE 16 CAUSED SERIOUS FLOODING AND LANDSLIPS IN MANY PLACES. THE WORSE-HIT AREA WAS SAI TAU TSUEN IN KOWLOON CITY WHERE FLOOD WATER WAS REPORTED TO BE NEARLY 2-METRE DEEP.
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