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MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1987

ANOTHER DRY MONTH IN SEPTEMBER

RAINFALL IN SEPTEMBER WAS FOLLOWING A DRY AUGUST, THE TOTAL

RAINFALL AGAIN

AMOUNT OF BELOW NORMAL. THE

158.3 MILLIMETRES OF 320.4 REPRESENTED ONLY 49 PER CENT OF THE NORMAL SEPTEMBER AMOUNT

2,179.6 MILLIMETRES MILLIMETRES. HOWEVER, THE CUMULATIVE RAINFALL OF SINCE JANUARY 1 IS STILL SEVEN PER CENT ABOVE NORMAL.

BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE THE LOW RAINFALL AMOUNT LAST MONTH MAY

CHINA COAST. ONLY SCARCITY OF TROPICAL CYCLONES AFFECTING THE SOUTH

ΤΟ HONG KONG DURING THE MONTH AND TYPHOON GERALD POSED A THREAT NECESSITATED THE HOISTING OF THE STAND-BY SINGAL NO. 1.

3 WAS SINCE 1956, WHEN THE TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING SIGNAL NO.

SIGNAL HAS BEEN INTRODUCED, THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR IN WHICH NO SUCH HOISTED, UP TO THE END OF SEPTEMBER.

THE SOUTH CHINA THE FEWER THAN NORMAL TROPICAL CYCLONES OVER

HONG KONG'S HIGH COAST RESULTED IN

MEAN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE OF 1,010.6 HPA FOR THE MONTH, THE THIRD HIGHEST ON RECORD FOR SEPTEMBER.

ISOLATED

ON SEPTEMBER 1, A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE BROUGHT SOME

AFFECT THE TERRITORY ON SHOWERS TO HONG KONG. SHOWERS CONTINUED TO

ALSO

THE OCCURRED ON

AND 3. SEPTEMBER 2 MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 3.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS

THE WEATHER REMAINED GENERALLY CLOUDY BETWEEN SEPTEMBER

RECORDED EXCEPT A TRACE DURING THE

7, BUT NO RAINFALL WAS MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 7.

4 AND EARLY

8 WHILE TYPHOON THE WEATHER BECAME FINE ON SEPTEMBER

GERALD ON SEPTEMBER 9 GERALD ENTERED WAS APPROACHING FROM THE EAST.

THE KONG. THE STAND-BY BASHI CHANNEL AND POSED A THREAT TO HONG

SINGAL

AT NOON. WAS HOISTED

A NO. 1

MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF

32.3

THE MONTH. ON DEGREES CELSIUS WAS RECORDED THAT DAY, THE HIGHEST OF

то FRESHEN FROM THE SEPTEMBER 10, WINDS OFFSHORE BEGAN

NORTH AND REACHED A MAXIMUM SPEED OF 47 KM/H AT WAGLAN ISLAND BY THE AFTERNOON. GUSTS OF OVER 65 KM/H WERE ALSO RECORDED.

ON SEPTEMBER 10, GERALD TOOK ON A MORE NORTHWESTERLY TRACK SIGNAL NO. 1 WAS NO LONGER THREATENING HONG KONG. THE STAND-BY

NO RAINFALL LOWERED AT 11 AM. ALTHOUGH THE SKY REMAINED CLOUDY, RECORDED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 12 WHEN ISOLATED SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH REMNANTS OF GERALD FELL OVER HONG KONG.

AND

WAS

WAS

THE

/BETWEEN SEPTEMBER