XN000022-1990-03-11 — Page 11

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND

SOUND RECORDING AND

REPRODUCING APPARATUS

10

SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1990

AND EQUIPMENT

2,248

2,035

213

+ 10

TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS

AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS

1,089

849

+

240

+ 28

HUMID AND MORE RAIN IN FEBRUARY

FOLLOWING A WET AND HUMID JANUARY, FEBRUARY WAS AND MORE HUMID, ACCORDING TO THE MONTHLY WEATHER THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY TODAY (SUNDAY).

REPORT

EVEN WETTER RELEASED BY

THE MONTHLY MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 86 PER CENT AND THE MONTHLY TOTAL RAINFALL OF 195.7 MILLIMETRES WERE RESPECTIVELY THE SIXTH AND THE FIFTH HIGHEST ON RECORD FOR FEBRUARY.

THE MONTHLY RAINFALL WAS MORE THAN FOUR AND A HALF TIMES THE NORMAL FEBRUARY FIGURE OF 41.9 MILLIMETRES.

THE ACCUMULATED RAINFALL FOR THE FIRST TWO MONTHS AMOUNTED TO 243.2 MILLIMETRES, WHICH IS ABOUT THREE AND A THE NORMAL AND THE FOURTH WETTEST FOR THE SAME PERIOD.

THIS YEAR HALF TIMES

THE INTENSE COLD SURGE TOWARDS THE END OF JANUARY REACHED ITS CLIMAX EARLY ON FEBRUARY 1 WHEN TEMPERATURES AT THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY PLUMMETED TO SEVEN DEGREES, THE LOWEST FOR THE MONTH AND ALSO THE COLDEST SO FAR THIS WINTER.

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TEMPERATURES WERE EVEN LOWER ELSEWHERE DOWN TO FOUR OR FIVE DEGREES OVER THE NEW TERRITORIES AND NEAR FREEZING ON HIGH GROUND.

FRESH EASTERLIES REPLACED THE NORTHERLIES LATER ON FEBRUARY 1. THERE WERE SOME SUNNY PERIODS ON THE NEXT DAY AND TEMPERATURES STARTED TO CLIMB SLOWLY.

HOWEVER, A WEAK REPLENISHMENT OF THE NORTHERLIES ON FEBRUARY 3 BROUGHT THE TEMPERATURE DOWN AGAIN THE FOLLOWING DAY.

FROM FEBRUARY 5 TO 22, IT WAS MAINLY AN EASTERLY WEATHER REGIME APART FROM A BRIEF NORTHERLY INTERLUDE WHEN A WEAK COLD FRONT CROSSED THE SOUTH CHINA COAST ON THE EVENING OF FEBRUARY 11.

THE WEATHER FROM FEBRUARY 5 TO 15 WAS VARIABLE WITH PERIODS SUNSHINE AND OCCASIONAL LIGHT RAIN,

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