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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1993

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NOTE:

APCO

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL ORDINANCE

NCO : NOISE CONTROL ORDINANCE

WPCO: WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ORDINANCE

DASO DUMPING AT SEA ACT 1974 (OVERSEAS TERRITORIES) ORDER 1975

NOTE TO EDITORS:

ENQUIRIES ON SPECIFIC CASES CAN BE DIRECTED TO THE PRINCIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OFFICERS:

FOLLOWING

APCO : NCO !

DASO :

MR FRANKLIN CHUNG MR STEVEN HO MR PAUL HOLMES

TEL

594 6200

TEL

594 6500

TEL

756 3553

WPCO: CASES 19,23,26,28,31 AND 32 MR PATRICK LEI

CASES 5,20,25,29 AND 34

TEL

685 1133

MR MURRAY LUO

TEL

415 9211

HOWEVER, ENQUIRIES ON GENERAL ISSUES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE DEPARTMENT'S MEDIA RELATIONS UNIT.

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WEATHER SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER

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STORMY WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH TYPHOON IRA ON NOVEMBER 4 AND AND A COLD SNAP BROUGHT BY AN INTENSE SURGE OF THE WINTER MONSOON NOVEMBER 21 AND 22 WERE THE TWO MAIN WEATHER EVENTS IN THE MONTH.

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5

ON

THE MONTHLY WEATHER SUMMARY WAS PUBLISHED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY TODAY (TUESDAY).

IN

TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING SIGNALS, WHICH HAD NOT BEEN RAISED THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER SINCE 1974, WERE HOISTED FOR

+

THE LATE-SEASON PASSAGE OF IRA.

RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THE TYPHOON WAS ALSO EXCEPTIONAL AS INTENSE CONVECTION EMBEDDED WITHIN ONE OF ITS TRAILING RAINBANDS BROUGHT CONCENTRATED HEAVY RAIN TO THE WESTERN PART OF THE TERRITORY EARLY ON NOVEMBER 5.

OVERALL, THE MONTH WAS CLOUDIER AND MORE HUMID THAN NORMAL.

THE TOTAL RAINFALL OF 144.6 MILLIMETRES AND THE 131.2 HOURS BRIGHT SUNSHINE IN THE MONTH WERE RESPECTIVELY THE FIFTH HIGHEST SIXTH LOWEST ON RECORD FOR NOVEMBER.

OF

AND

WITH THE MONTHLY RAINFALL MORE THAN FOUR TIMES THE NOVEMBER NORMAL OF 35.1 MILLIMETRES, THE RAINFALL TOTAL SINCE JANUARY 1 AMOUNTED то 2,328.2 MILLIMETRES, SIX PER CENT ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 2,187.0 MILLIMETRES FOR THE SAME PERIOD.

/RELATIVELY COOL