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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1992

WIDESPREAD FLOODING ON

OF 191 CASES

FLOODS HONG KONG ISLAND, 34 IN NUMBER OF REPORTED

CAUSED THE DELUGE BETWEEN 6 AND 8 AM THE MORNING OF MAY 8. UP TO 5 PM THAT AFTERNOON,

OCCURRED ON WERE REPORTED, OF WHICH 130 KOWLOON AND 27 IN THE NEW TERRITORIES. THE TOTAL FLOODS ROSE TO AROUND 300 BY THE MORNING THE NEXT DAY,

AFFECT CONVECTIVE DISTURBANCES CONTINUED TO THE NIGHT OF MAY 10 EVEN THOUGH THE INTENSITY OF THE REDUCED.

HONG KONG UNTIL RAIN WAS MUCH

MEANWHILE, COOLER AIR NORTH OF THE TROUGH SPREAD ACROSS THE SOUTH CHINA COAST AND BROUGHT BELOW-NORMAL TEMPERATURES.

TEMPERATURES FELL TO

10, AS THE EASTERLIES FRESHENED ON MAY THE MONTH'S LOWEST OF 20.2 DEGREES DURING THE DAY,

DAYS

AFTER THE

THE WEATHER REMAINED CLOUDY ON MAY 11 BUT GAVE WAY TO FINE SUNNY SKIES OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF

EASTERLIES

SUBSIDED.

AND

HAD

THE CLOUDS RETURNED ON MAY 14 ALONG WITH SOME INTERMITTENT LIGHT RAIN.

ANOTHER DELUGE ACCOMPANIED BY THUNDER AND SQUALLS BROKE OUT THE AFTERNOON OF MAY 15.

ON

PERSISTENT. SEVEN ON THIS OCCASION, THE HEAVY RAIN WAS NOT AS CASES OF FLOODING AND TWO CASES OF LANDSLIPS WERE REPORTED.

BETWEEN SHEUNG THE TRAM SERVICE

WAN AND

BAY CAUSEWAY DISRUPTED BUT OTHERWISE EFFECTS ON ROAD TRAFFIC WERE MINOR.

WAS

THE

LIGHT RAIN PERSISTED ON MAY 16 AND THE RAIN TURNED HEAVIER

OF NEXT DAY AS A TROUGH

LOW PRESSURE APPROACHED FROM THE INLAND REGION OF GUANGDONG.

CUSTY SOUTHWESTERLY

THUNDERSTORMS LED

WINDS AND SQUALLS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RATHER WINDY CONDITIONS.

PEOPLE THREE

WERE WAS A TREE

TOPPLED INJURED BY FALLING SIGNBOARDS OR LOOSE OBJECTS. AND A SCAFFOLDING WAS BLOWN ASKEW IN HONG KONG ISLAND.

THE PASSAGE OF THE TROUGH LATER COOLER AIR FROM THE NORTH.

ON

MAY 17 BROUGHT SLIGHTLY

BEFORE CLOUDS

EASTERLY, NEXT THREE

THERE WERE SOME SUNNY PERIODS THE FOLLOWING DAY

19 AS WINDS TURNED AND LIGHT RAIN RECURRED EARLY ON MAY CLOUDY AND RELATIVELY COOL WEATHER THEN PREVAILED FOR THE DAYS, WITH ANOTHER RAINY EPISODE OCCURRING ON THE EVENING OF MAY 21.

23 ΤΟ 27. AND APART WINDS WERE LIGHT AND VARIABLE FROM MAY

PERIOD WAS FROM MAY 24, THE WEATHER DURING THE OCCASIONAL LIGHT SHOWERS AND SOME COASTAL MIST AT MORNING.

MAINLY NIGHT

CLOUDY WITH AND IN THE

DESPITE A

FRESHENING SLIGHT

OF THE

EASTERLIES,

BRILLIANTLY FINE DAY ON MAY 28. IT CLOUDED UP AGAIN THE NEXT RAIN STARTED IN THE AFTERNOON.

IT

/THE WEATHER

A

WAS DAY AND