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TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1988

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1987 AN UNUSUALLY WARM YEAR

LAST YEAR WAS AN UNUSUALLY WARM YEAR, RELEASED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY.

ACCORDING то STATISTICS

AND

THE MEAN MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 21.6 DEGREES

MEAN THE RECORDED

TEMPERATURE HIGHEST EVER CELSIUS WAS THE SECOND HIGHEST ON RECORD.

CELSIUS WAS THE OF 23.4 DEGREES

THE MEAN SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE OF 1,013.8

WAS ALSO THE HIGHEST EVER RECORDED.

HECTOPASCALS FOR 1987

THE TOTAL

DESPITE THE UNUSUALLY LOW CONTRIBUTION TO IN 1987 FROM TROPICAL CYCLONES, THE ABUNDANT RAINFALL EARLIER YEAR MORE THAN MADE UP FOR THE DEFICIT,

THE ANNUAL RAINFALL OF 2,319.3 MILLIMETRES WAS ABOUT CENT ABOVE THE NORMAL AMOUNT OF 2,224.7 MILLIMETRES.

RAINFALL

IN THE

FOUR PER

RELATIVELY FEW

TROPICAL CYCLONES

AFFECTED THE SOUTH CHINA

COAST IN 1987.

THERE WERE ONLY SIX TROPICAL CYCLONES IN THE IN 1987 COMPARED TO THE AVERAGE OF 12 PER YEAR.

FIVE TROPICAL CYCLONES NECESSITATED THE CYCLONE WARNING SIGNALS IN HONG KONG.

OCTOBER

SOUTH CHINA SEA

HOISTING OF TROPICAL

STRONG WIND SIGNAL SINCE THIS SIGNAL WAS

LAST YEAR WAS THE FIRST YEAR IN WHICH THE

LATE UNTIL HOISTED NO. 3 WAS NOT INTRODUCED IN 1956.

JANUARY 1987 HAD PLENTY OF SUNSHINE AND WAS RELATIVELY WARM.

THE MONTHLY MEAN TEMPERATURE OF 17.3 DEGREES DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL.

WARM CONDITIONS DURING THE MONTH WERE DIRECTLY AMPLE SUNSHINE, WHICH WAS 19 PER CENT ABOVE MEAN.

CELSIUS WAS 1.7

ALMOST BALMY CONDITIONS CONTINUED INTO FEBRUARY.

LINKED ΤΟ THE

3 DEGREES CELSIUS MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR THE CELSIUS, WAS THE SECOND

IN FACT, THE MONTH'S MEAN TEMPERATURE OF 18.1 WAS THE THIRD WARMEST ON RECORD WHILE THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF THE YEAR, 17.8 DEGREES HIGHEST.

MARCH 1987 WAS A MONTH OF RECORD-BREAKING WEATHER EVENTS.

/BESIDES BEING