SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1992
TODAY'S SALE, THE 183RD ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BRINGS THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY REALISED SO FAR TO $152,490,905.
THERE WAS NO BIDDER FOR EZ417. THIS VEHICLE REGISTRATION MARK WILL BE ASSIGNED TO THE ORIGINAL APPLICANT,
OCTOBER WEATHER REPORT
OCTOBER WAS A MONTH VERY MUCH
DOMINATED BY THE NORTHEAST HECTO-PASCALS, THE
MONSOON, WITH A MONTHLY MEAN PRESSURE OF 1,015.6 EIGHTH HIGHEST ON RECORD FOR OCTOBER.
THIS WAS ACCORDING TO A MONTHLY WEATHER REPORT RELEASED TODAY (SATURDAY) BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY.
IN GENERAL, TEMPERATURES WERE BELOW NORMAL. BUT A VERY WARM NIGHT PRIOR TO THE ONSET OF THE FIRST SURGE OF THE NORTHEAST MONSOON RESULTED IN THE FIFTH HIGHEST OCTOBER DAILY MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 27.0 DEGREES RECORDED IN THE EARLY HOURS OF OCTOBER 4.
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE PREVAILING DRY CONTINENTAL AIR MASS, THE MONTHLY MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 66 PER CENT WAS THE SEVENTH LOWEST FOR OCTOBER.
THE MONTH'S RAINFALL OF 30.9 MILLIMETRES WAS ONLY ABOUT 21 PER CENT OF THE OCTOBER NORMAL OF 144.8 MILLIMETRES.
MONTHS, THE TOTAL WHICH WAS 21 PER
WITH THREE CONSECUTIVE DRIER THAN NORMAL RAINFALL UP TO OCTOBER 31 WAS 2,602.3 MILLIMETRES CENT ABOVE THE PERIOD'S NORMAL OF 2,151.9 MILLIMETRES.
A MOIST SOUTHEASTERLY AIRSTREAM GAVE RISE TO SOME LOCALLY DEVELOPED SHOWERS ON THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 1.
HOWEVER, THE WEATHER SOON TURNED FINE AROUND NOON AND, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A WARM MARITIME AIR MASS, REMAINED SUNNY AND HOT OVER THE NEXT THREE DAYS.
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THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE OF RECORDED DURING THE DAY ON OCTOBER 3.
2 DEGREES FOR THE MONTH WAS
THE VERY WARM WEATHER CONTINUED BUT WAS SOON REMOVED EARLY ON OCTOBER 5 AS THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT MARKED THE BEGINNING OF A PROLONGED SPELL OF ACTIVE NORTHEAST MONSOON THAT LASTED ALMOST THE REST OF THE MONTH.
THE COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH A SURGE OF THE NORTHEAST MONSOON REACHED THE SOUTH CHINA COAST EARLY ON OCTOBER 5.
NORTHERLY WINDS FRESHENED AND THE WEATHER TURNED CLOUDY WITH RAIN IN THE MORNING. THE SURGE BROUGHT A TEMPERATURE FALL OF THREE DEGREES OVER THE TERRITORY.
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