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TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1992

BUT BY THE NEXT DAY, THE SOUTHWESTERLIES HAD GAINED HAND AND WINDS WERE OCCASIONALLY FRESH OFFSHORE.

AFTER

SOME

SUNNY INTERVALS

THUNDERSTORMS RETURNED IN THE AFTERNOON.

THE UPPER

THAT MORNING, RAIN AND

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THE

THE CONVERGENCE EFFECT ONCE AGAIN BECAME PRONOUNCED ON JUNE AS RAIN BECAME MORE FREQUENT AND TORRENTIAL, PARTICULARLY IN AFTERNOON WHEN THERE WERE ALSO SQUALLY THUNDERSTORMS.

NEW

OF THE

MILLIMETRES

FOR THIS RAINY EPISODE, THE CENTRAL PART TERRITORIES RECEIVED MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN AND OVER 100 OF RAINFALL WERE REGISTERED IN SOME RAINGAUGES.

DURING THE SPELL OF DISTURBED WEATHER LEADING UP TO JUNE 15. ABOUT 60 CASES OF LANDSLIPS OCCURRED THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.

THE SAI SHA ROAD LINKING SHA TIN AND SAI KUNG WAS COMPLETELY BLOCKED BY A LANDSLIDE ON JUNE 14.

OF

IN SHA TIN, 20 FAMILIES FROM THE HILLSIDE VILLAGE OF HA WO CHE HAD TO BE EVACUATED ON JUNE 14 AND 15. ABOUT 50 INCIDENTS FLOODING WERE REPORTED, MOSTLY IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

THE SOUTHWEST MONSOON PREVAILED FROM JUNE 16 TO 18.

THE WEATHER TURNED FINE DURING THE PERIOD APART FROM SOME MORNING SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS.

THE PASSAGE OF ANOTHER TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE LATER ON JUNE 18 DID NOT BRING ANY SEVERE WEATHER INITIALLY.

HOWEVER, AS WINDS GRADUALLY TURNED EASTERLY ON JUNE 19 AND BECAME FRESH ON JUNE 20, THERE WERE OUTBREAKS OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND SQUALLY THUNDERSTORMS.

THIS TIME, THE MAIN AREA OF RAIN CLOUDS DEVELOPMENT HOVERED OVER THE EASTERN PART OF THE TERRITORY WHERE THE AMOUNT OF RAINFALL RECORDED OVER THE TWO-DAY PERIOD TOTALLED ABOUT 150 MILLIMETRES.

THE WORST FLOODING OCCURRED IN THE MA ON SHAN AREA WITH FLOOD WATER EXCEEDING TWO METRES IN DEPTH. THE MA ON SHAN ROAD WAS CLOSED FOR HOURS.

APART FROM SOME MORNING LIGHT SHOWERS, THE WEATHER FROM JUNE 21 TO 27 WAS SUNNY AND VERY HOT, WITH THE HOTTEST DAY SO FAR THIS YEAR OCCURRING ON JUNE 25 WHEN A MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 32.8 DEGREE WAS RECORDED.

THE EARLY PART OF THE PERIOD WAS DOMINATED BY THE MONSOON. BUT IN RESPONSE TO A BREWING TROPICAL CYCLONE SOUTH CHINA SEA TO THE WEST OF THE PHILIPPINES, WINDS TURNED ON JUNE 24 AND FRESHENED THE NEXT DAY.

THE TROPICAL CYCLONE TOOK ON THE NAME OF CHUCK INTENSIFIED AS IT HEADED TOWARDS HAINAN ISLAND.

SOUTHWEST OVER THE EASTERLY

AND GRADUALLY

/OFFSHORE WINDS