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Hong Kong will experience a big drop in temperatures later this week, with the mercury falling to as low as 14 degrees Celsius after a balmy Sunday of 25 degrees or above in some districts.
According to the Observatory, temperatures will drop to 16 degrees starting on Tuesday and ease further to 15 degrees over the weekend, falling to 14 degrees the following Monday.
“A fresh to strong northeast monsoon will affect the coast of southern China in the next couple of days,” the forecaster said on Sunday.
“A band of clouds will cover Guangdong midweek this week … It will be cool in the morning and at night over the region during the weekend to early next week.”
The temperature at the Observatory’s headquarters in Tsim Sha Tsui was about 25 degrees at 1pm on Sunday, while weather stations in Happy Valley and Kowloon City recorded figures as high as 28 degrees around the same time.
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