Temperatures in Hong Kong may drop to 11 degrees Celsius by Wednesday morning due to an intense winter monsoon, the city’s weather forecaster said on Tuesday, as it cautioned the residents about the second cold spell of the year to hit the city.
Locally, winds will turn northerlies on Tuesday night with temperatures falling appreciably to a minimum of about 16 degrees in the urban areas, according to the Hong Kong Observatory.
“The weather will become cold tomorrow (Wednesday). It will be mainly cloudy and persistently cold on Thursday and Friday,” the HKO said in a special weather bulletin at noon.
While the minimum temperature will be around 11 to 12 degrees in the urban areas, it will be a couple of degrees lower in the New Territories, it said, adding that the temperature rise during daytime will also be relatively small.
Over the weekend, it will still be cool in the morning, said the HKO.
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With the HKO issuing a cold weather warning at 4:20 pm, the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health reminded the public, particularly the elderly, people with chronic illnesses, outdoor workers, pregnant women, infants and children, to adopt appropriate measures to protect their health in view of the cold weather.
On Tuesday, temperatures over inland Guangdong around noon were six to eight degrees lower than those of the previous day.
At noon, Tropical Depression Nokaen was centered about 980 kilometers east-northeast of Manila. It is forecast to move east at about 18km per hour across the seas east of the Philippines.
