TNAG-2594-FCO40-3782-Appointment-of-Chris-Patten-as-new-Governor-of-Hong-Kong--Ap-1992 — Page 97

FCO40 Hong Kong Department Records 聯邦事務部香港部檔案 All

1992-05-08 20:37 G. 1.S

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the Department of Education, insofar as whether morning schools should

be closed or not, the normal arrangement is the deadline to be

observed is about 5.15. Passed this deadline there is

there is no point to

activate the normal arrangement. It means that if the decision was not

made by 5.15 to 5.30, it is impossible to catch the first radio

announcement at 6 o'clock. The heavy rain this morning really started

to fall about 6 o'clock, passed the time of the deadline of 5.15.

That's roughly the situation this morning. I'd like to tell you here

that next time we should be able to forecast this type of rain, to be

able to catch this type of record rainfall but the cold reality is,

probably even the best meteorological office would be unable to

forecast this extreme rainfall and to pinpoint the time of

commencement to

to within an hour. After this morning, we have to do a

lot to improve our extreme rainfall forecasting skill. It may be quite

impossible, it may take time, but we shall try our level best, this wo

can be relied upon.

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