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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1988

THE THE WEATHER REMAINED FINE DURING

TO MOVE AS KIT CONTINUED STRENGTHEN EARLY ON SEPTEMBER 21.

THAT EVENING.

DAY BUT TURNED CLOUDY TO CLOSER,

BEGAN WINDS

HOISTING OF THE CONTINUED TO CHINA SOUTH

THE INCREASED THREAT OF KIT NECESSITATED THE STAND BY SIGNAL NO. 1 AT 8.45 AM ON SEPTEMBER 21, WINDS

MOVED CLOSER TO THE STRENGTHEN DURING THE DAY AS KIT COAST. THE STRONG WIND SIGNAL NO. 3 WAS HOISTED AT 9 PM.

KIT MADE

LANDFALL BETWEEN

SHANWEI

AND

MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 22, AND IN HONG KONG, ALL AT 9.10 AM.

ALTHOUGH

KIT

WAS ABOUT

170

KM

THE SHANTOU DURING SIGNALS WERE LOWERED

NORTHEAST AT ITS CLOSEST THE TERRITORY. THE WEATHER APPROACH, IT DID NOT BRING MUCH RAIN TO REMAINED CLOUDY TO OVERCAST ON SEPTEMBER 22.

TO THE JUST BEFORE KIT MADE LANDFALL, AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE

DEPRESSION NAMED MAMIE ON

SOUTH OF KISHA DEVELOPED INTO A TROPICAL THE EVENING OF SEPTEMBER 21.

A NORTHWARD COURSE RAIN TO HONG KONG ON

IT MOVED TOWARDS THE SOUTH CHINA COAST ON

AND PERIODS AND BROUGHT OVERCAST SKIES SEPTEMBER 23.

OF

BY

THE

NORTHEAST

MONSOON,

INTO CONTINUED

WINDS

BECAME

STRONG

ENHANCED

THE NEXT MORNING EVEN OFFSHORE THAT EVENING. RAIN

OF AFTER MAMIE WEAKENED INTO AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE TO THE NORTHEAST HONG KONG.

OF THE REMNANTS WEATHER IN HONG KONG WAS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 26.

MAMIE REMAINED ALMOST STATIONARY

CLOUDY TO OVERCAST

WITH OCCASIONAL

AND THE RAIN

HONG KONG A DRIER AND COOLER NORTHERLY AIRSTREAM THEN REACHED

AND THE TEMPERATURE THE NEXT THAT EVENING. THE SKY BEGAN TO CLEAR MORNING FELL TO 21.9 DEGREES WHICH WAS THE LOWEST FOR THE MONTH.

OTHER THAN SOME

LIGHT RAIN

OVERNIGHT,

THE WEATHER

WAS

GENERALLY FINE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 29.

NORTHERN PART OF MEANWHILE, AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE

THIS LUZON WAS MOVING STEADILY WESTWARDS, CLOUD BANDS ASSOCIATED WITH

KONG ON AREA OF LOW PRESSURE BROUGHT SOME LIGHT RAIN PATCHES TO HONG SEPTEMBER 30.

DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, NO AIRCRAFT WAS DIVERTED DUE ADVERSE WEATHER. THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS WERE ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 1, 5, 13, 15, 16, 17, 23 AND 24 .

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