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SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1990

NORTH ALTHOUGH EIGHT TROPICAL CYCLONES OCCURRED IN THE WESTERN

AFFECTED HONG KONG. THE MONTHLY PACIFIC IN AUGUST, NONE OF THEM

HALF OF RAINFALL AMOUNTED TO ONLY 218.0 MILLIMETRES, WHICH WAS ABOUT THE NORMAL FIGURE OF 413.4 MILLIMETRES.

THE

RAINY

AND THUNDERY

ON

20

AND A

WAS

AUGUST WEATHER 33-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS REPORTED KILLED BY LIGHTNING AT LOK MA CHAU.

TAI RAIN BECAME MORE FREQUENT AND HEAVY LATER ON AUGUST 22. IN

BOY 15-YEAR-OLD

WERE SWEPT AWAY BY PO, AN 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL AND A

LATER WERE

FOUND DEAD. THE HEAVY RAIN SWIFT STREAM CURRENTS AND PERSISTED INTO THE NEXT DAY.

TWO THESE DURING

DAYS, 10 MINOR CASES OF

WERE FLOODING IN THE URBAN AREAS. TWO REPORTED IN THE NEW TERRITORIES AND EIGHT MINOR LANDSLIPS ALSO OCCURRED, IN DIAMOND HILL AND TSUEN WAN .

MONTH'S MEAN ON THE WHOLE, SEPTEMBER WAS RATHER WARM WITH THE

BEING DEGREES CELSIUS

THE FOURTH HIGHEST ON TEMPERATURE OF 28.1

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE, 26 MEAN

DEGREES RECORD FOR SEPTEMBER AND THE CELSIUS, BEING THE FIFTH HIGHEST.

WIND SIGNAL NO. 3 WAS MONSOON SIGNAL ON FOUR NORTHERN PART OF THE SOUTH

OCTOBER WAS RATHER WINDY. THE STRONG STRONG THE HOISTED ON THREE OCCASIONS AND OCCASIONS. FOUR TYPHOONS TRAVERSED THE CHINA SEA DURING THE MONTH.

HONG KONG CHINA COASTAL ONLY

HOWEVER, THEY ALL PASSED WESTWARDS, TO THE SOUTH OF WITH THEIR MAJOR RAINBANDS STOPPING SHORT OF THE SOUTH AREAS. AS A RESULT, THE TOTAL RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH AMOUNTED TO

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OF FIGURE THE MILLIMETRES, 15.2

MILLIMETRES.

A FRACTION

OF

NORMAL

121.2

DURING THE PASSAGE OF THESE TYPHOONS, THERE WERE NO REPORTS DEMAGE OR CASUALTIES IN HONG KONG.

NOVEMBER IN

WAS DOMINATED

OF

BY THE WEATHER

THE ASIATIC RESULT, THE CONTINENTAL ANTICYCLONE AND THE ASSOCIATED MONSOON. AS A

IN HONG MONTHLY MEAN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE OF 1,019.7 HECTOPASCALS

FOR NOVEMBER, AND THE STRONG KONG WAS THE FIFTH HIGHEST ON RECORD MONSOON SIGNAL WAS HOISTED ON FOUR SEPARATE OCCASIONS.

RAIN DURING THE MONTH WAS MOSTLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE

MONTHLY TOTAL THE

OF 20.3 THE WINTER MONSOON SURGES. WAS 59 PER CENT OF THE NORMAL FIGURE OF 34.7 MILLIMETRES.

WEATHER IN THERE WAS A SHARP CONTRAST BETWEEN THE PART OF DECEMBER AND THAT IN THE LATTER PART OF THE MONTH. PART WAS CHARACTERISED BY CLEAR SKY AND BRILLIANT SUNSHINE LATTER PART WAS CLOUDY AND RAINY.

MONTH

AMOUNTED ΤΟ TOTAL RAINFALL FOR THE WHICH WAS 59 PER CENT ABOVE THE AVERAGE FOR DECEMBER.

ONSET OF MILLIMETRES

THE FIRST THE FIRST WHILE THE

40.2

MILLIMETRES,

0

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