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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1992

HONG AUGUST 30 WAS ONE OF THE HOTTEST DAYS EVER EXPERIENCED IN

DAY BEAT THE KONG. THE DAILY MEAN TEMPERATURE OF 32.0 DEGREES THAT PREVIOUS RECORD OF 31.9 DEGREES ON AUGUST 18 1990, BY 0.1 DEGREE.

THE DAILY MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 30.0 DEGREES

EVER FOR ALL

THE HIGHEST

DAILY MAXIMUM MONTHS. 35.0 DEGREES ON AUGUST 30 AND THE MEAN DAILY MAXIMUM THE MONTH OF 32.0 DEGREES WERE BOTH THE FIFTH HIGHEST FOR AUGUST.

WAS THE SECOND OF TEMPERATURE TEMPERATURE FOR

DEGREES BOTH THE MONTHLY MEAN OF 29.4

AND MEAN DAILY

FOR SECOND HIGHEST FOR THE MONTH OF 27.3 DEGREES RANKED THIRD HIGHEST FOR ALL MONTHS.

MINIMUM AUGUST AND

PER HUMIDITY OF 77

CENT AND

MONTHLY RECORDED

THE MONTHLY RELATIVE RAINFALL OF 97.7 MILLIMETRES WERE BOTH THE THIRD LOWEST EVER IN AUGUST.

THE TOTAL MONTHLY RAINFALL WAS ONLY ABOUT ONE-QUARTER NORMAL OF 391.4 MILLIMETRES, MAKING IT THE DRIEST AUGUST SINCE 1962.

OF THE

MONTHS OF

HOWEVER, WITH THE LARGE SURPLUS IN THE FIRST SEVEN

OF 2508.3 THIS YEAR, THE TOTAL RAINFALL BETWEEN JANUARY AND AUGUST

1707.4 MILLIMETRES WAS 47 PER CENT ABOVE THE JANUARY-AUGUST NORMAL OF MILLIMETRES AND WAS THE FOURTH HIGHEST FOR THE SAME PERIOD.

WEATHER

AT THE END OF JULY

CONTINUED

INTO

THE FINE AUGUST. APART FROM SOME BRIEF SHOWERS ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 1, WEATHER FOR THE FIRST EIGHT DAYS WAS SUNNY AND HOT.

EARLY THE

OF THE

A MODERATE SOUTHWESTERLY AIRSTREAM BLEW FOR MOST PART PERIOD AND WINDS WERE OCCASIONALLY FRESH OFFSHORE FROM AUGUST 4 TO 7.

OF

OCCURRENCE OF SOME THUNDERY SHOWERS ON THE LATTER PART

TO EAST ΤΟ WIND DIRECTION BY A SHIFT IN FOLLOWED

THE AUGUST 8 WAS SOUTHEASTERLY.

THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE OF 25.6 DEGREES FOR THE MONTH RAIN ON THE EVENING OF AUGUST 8 ALTHOUGH LONG PERIODS OF PREVAILED DURING THE DAY.

IN

THE

OCCURRED SUNSHINE

MORE SHOWERY AS TOWARDS THE

FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS TURNED WEATHER SCATTERED RAIN CLOUDS FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEA DRIFTED COAST OF GUANGDONG.

APART FROM FRESHENING OF THE EASTERLIES ON AUGUST 10, SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS PREVAILED FOR MUCH OF THE PERIOD.

MODERATE

LOCAL WEATHER WAS INFLUENCED BY TROPICAL STORM MARK FROM AUGUST 16 TO 24.

/DURING THE