Isolated thunderstorms could affect the plans of Hongkongers hoping to go moon-gazing for the Mid-Autumn Festival on Tuesday evening, with the city’s forecaster also saying a tropical cyclone may enter the South China Sea later next week.
The Hong Kong Observatory said showers on Saturday afternoon had brought more than 20mm of rainfall to parts of the city as thunderstorms associated with upper-air disturbances continued to affect the coast of Guangdong.
While a northeast monsoon was expected to reach the city later next week to bring very hot and mainly fine weather, the forecaster also pointed to a possibility of unsettled conditions.
“A broad trough of low pressure will bring unsettled weather to the seas near Luzon [in the Philippines], and there may be development of an area of low pressure, but there are uncertainties in its subsequent movement,” the Observatory said in its nine-day forecast.
