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TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1934

SUNNIEST MONTH ON RECORD

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JULY 1984, WITH 301.4 HOURS OF BRIGHT SUNSHINE, WAS THE SUNNIEST MONTH SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1884, ACCORDING TO THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY'S MONTHLY REPORT JUST PUBLISHED.

THE MONTH'S MEAN TEMPERATURE OF 29.0 DEGREE CELSIUS WAS THE SEVENTH HIGHEST AND ITS MEAN MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 27.2 DEGREE CELSIUS, THE FOURTH HIGHEST FOR JULY.

THE MONTH, WITH 125.9 MM OF RAIN, OR 40 PER CENT OF THE NORMAL AMOUNT, WAS THE FOURTH DRIEST JULY ON RECORD.

HOWEVER, THE CUMULATIVE RAINFALL FOR THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF THE YEAR, AT 1 274.6 MM, WAS ONLY THREE PER CENT BELOW AVERAGE.

THE MONTHLY MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 78 PER CENT WAS THE THIRD LOWEST FOR THE MONTH.

ON THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF THE MONTH, THE WEATHER WAS FINE APART FROM SOME ISOLATED SHOWERS. IT BECAME UNSETTLED WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS FROM JULY 3 TO 5 BUT TURNED FINE AGAIN WITH A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS ON JULY 6 AND 7.

SEVERE TROPICAL STORM BETTY MOVED ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA ON JULY 8 AND 9, BRINGING 84.2 MM OF RAIN, OR 67 PER CENT OF THE MONTH'S TOTAL RAINFALL.

ON JULY 8, THERE WERE OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. WINDS VEERED FROM THE NORTHEAST TO THE EAST AND BECAME GENERALLY STRONG DURING THE DAY. GALES OVERNIGHT IN SOME EXPOSED PLACES.

THERE WERE ALSO

SHOWERS BECAME HEAVY AND WIDESPREAD ON JULY 9 WHILE WINDS TURNED SOUTHEASTERLY AND MODERATED DURING THE DAY.

FINE WEATHER PREVAILED FROM JULY 10 TO THE END OF THE

MONTH, WITH ONLY A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS.

ON THE LAST FOUR DAYS, THE WEATHER BECAME VERY HOT IN THE

THE AFTERNOON, WITH THE TEMPERATURE EXCEEDING 33 DEGREE CELSIUS. HIGHEST TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH, 33.8 DEGREE CELSIUS, WAS RECORDED ON JULY 31.

FIVE TROPICAL CYCLONES DEVELOPED OVER THE WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC AND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA DURING THE MONTH.

TYPHOON ALEX FORMED NEAR LUZON ON JULY 1 AND CROSSED TAIWAN ON JULY 3. IT RECURVED AND BECAME AN EXTRATOROPICAL CYCLONE NEAR SHANGHAI ON JULY 4 AND DISSIPATED OVER KOREA THE NEXT DAY.

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