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TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1988
IN KENNEDY TOWN, SEVEN WOODEN HUTS WERE DESTROYED BY FIRK AFTER BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
MINOR LANDSLIPS OCCURRED IN KWAI CHUNG AND MT. NICHOLSON.
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN BATTERED THE TERRITORY ON MAY 22 AND 23 CAUSING 66 CASES OF FLOODING THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY AND AT LEAST SIX CASES OF MINOR LANDSLIPS,
JUNE WAS DRIER THAN USUAL.
HOWEVER, AS EARLY SEASON RAIN HAD BEEN PLENTIFUL, CUMULATIVE RAINFALL FROM JANUARY TO JUNE WAS STILL SOME 24 PER CENT ABOVE THE HALF-YEAR NORMAL.
TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING SIGNALS WERE HOISTED FOR THE FIRST TIME. THAT WAS DURING THE APPROACH OF TROPICAL STORM RUTH ON JUNE 18.
JULY WAS CHARACTERISED BY A SHOWERY START, A MID-MONTH DRY SPELL AND BY THE EPISODE OF TORRENTIAL RAIN BETWEEN JULY 22 AND 30 WHEN FREQUENT THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRED FOR NINE CONSECUTIVE DAYS.
ACTIVE SUMMER MONSOON, ENHANCED BY STATIONARY TROUGH ACROSS SOUTH CHINA WAS THE MANIFEST CAUSE.
AT ITS CRESCENDO, FROM JULY 28 TO 30, THE MONSOON BROUGHT TO HONG KONG DAILY RAINFALL OF OVER 80 MILLIMETRES FOR THREE DAYS RUNNING, A RECORD FOR JULY,
DURING THIS PERIOD, THERE WERE 88 REPORTS OF FLOODING AND 46 REPORTS OF LANDSLIPS THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.
A TOTAL OF 123 HECTARES OF FARMLAND AND THREE HECTARES OF FIGH- PONDS WERE INUNDATED.
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THE MOST SERIOUS LANDSLIP OCCURRED NEAR CHO YIU CHUEN IN CHUNG ON JULY 30, WHERE MORE THAN 1,000 RESIDENTS HAD TO BE EVACUATED.
RAINFALL FOR AUGUST WAS 57 PER CENT BELOW NORMAL WITH THE SUNSHINE DURATION THE SIXTH HIGHEST ON RECORD FOR THE MONTH.
ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE OVER SOUTH CHINA WAS ABNORMALLY HIGH AND THE LOCAL MEAN SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE WAS THE HIGHEST ON RECORD FOR AUGUST.
BETTY AND CARY NECESSITATED THE HOISTING OF THE STANDBY SIGNAL NO. 1 FOR THE PERIODS AUGUST 14 то 15, AND 19 TO 21 RESPECTIVELY.
A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE GAVE RISE TO SQUALLY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING OF AUGUST 29.
THE ASSOCIATED
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