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SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1994

THE MONTHLY MEAN MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 26.8 DEGREES FIFTH HIGHEST ON RECORD FOR AUGUST.

WAS THE

LESS

THE MONTHLY RAINFALL AMOUNTED TO 182.8 MILLIMETRES ONLY,

THIS WAS DESPITE THAN HALF OF THE AUGUST NORMAL OF 391.4 MILLIMETRES. THE STORMY WEATHER BROUGHT BY TYPHOON TASHA ON AUGUST 20 WHEN THE NO.8 GALE OR STORM SIGNAL WAS HOISTED FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THE YEAR.

THEN CAME THREE TYPHOONS IN QUICK SUCCESSION WITHIN A FORTNIGHT IN SEPTEMBER.

BECKY AND DOT NECESSITATED THE HOISTING OF THE NO.8 STORM SIGNALS ON SEPTEMBER 17 AND 26 RESPECTIVELY.

GALE OR

ON SEPTEMBER 26 THE 223.9 MILLIMETRES OF RAIN BROUGHT BY DOT WAS THE THIRD HIGHEST DAILY AMOUNT ON RECORD FOR SEPTEMBER.

BY EARLY NEXT MORNING, THE NORTHERN PART OF THE NEW TERRITORIES WAS INUNDATED WITH FLOOD WATER AS DEEP AS SEVEN METRES IN SOME AREAS.

THE

THAN TWICE WITH A MONTHLY RAINFALL OF 655.9 MILLIMETRES, MORE THE SEPTEMBER NORMAL OF 299.7 MILLIMETRES, SEPTEMBER 1993 BECAME FIFTH WETTEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD.

OCTOBER WAS MUCH DRIER AND SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN NORMAL.

THIS WAS DUE TO THE DOMINANCE OF CONTINENTAL ANTICYCLONES WHICH PRESSURE OF 1,016.2 LED TO THE THIRD-HIGHEST OCTOBER MONTHLY MEAN

39 PER HECTOPASCALS. THE MONTHLY RAINFALL OF 87.8 MILLIMETRES WAS CENT BELOW THE OCTOBER NORMAL OF 144.8 MILLIMETRES.

NOVEMBER WAS UNUSUALLY CLOUDY AND HUMID.

THE MONTHLY RAINFALL OF 144.6 MILLIMETRES, MORE THAN FOUR TIMES THE NOVEMBER NORMAL OF 35.1 MILLIMETRES, AND THE 131.2 HOURS OF BRIGHT SUNSHINE IN THE MONTH WERE RESPECTIVELY THE FIFTH HIGHEST LOWEST ON RECORD FOR NOVEMBER.

AND SIXTH

THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EVENT WAS THE LATE-SEASON OF TYPHOON IRA EARLY IN THE MONTH.

RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH IRA WAS QUITE

PASSAGE

AS EXCEPTIONAL

RAINBANDS

INTENSE BROUGHT THE WESTERN

CONVECTION EMBEDDED

ONE OF ITS TRAILING WITHIN CONCENTRATED HEAVY RAIN OF MORE THAN 700 MILLIMETRES TO PART OF THE TERRITORY ON NOVEMBER 4 AND 5.

THERE

WERE

EXTENSIVE LANDSLIDES

IN LANTAU AND WIDESPREAD

FLOODING IN TUEN MUN AND YUEN LONG.

OF

AN INUNDATED WATER TREATMENT PLANT IN TUEN MUN AND A BURST

HAVING NO FRESH MAINS IN CHEUNG CHAU RESULTED IN THESE AREAS WATER SUPPLY FOR A PERIOD OF FOUR DAYS.

WATER

DECEMBER WAS SLIGHTLY COOLER AND CLOUDIER THAN NORMAL.

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