By Charlie Devereux and Michael Francis Gore MADRID (Reuters) -As Madrid sweltered at the peak of one of Spain’s longest-ever heatwaves, the temperature on a street in one of its poorest neighbourhoods – Puente de Vallecas – measured 41.4 degrees Celsius (106.5 Fahrenheit) by early afternoon. A few hundred metres down the street it was…
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Temperatures in Hong Kong reached as high as 33.4 degrees Celsius (92 Fahrenheit) on Sunday, with cooler conditions forecast by midweek as showers and thunderstorms approach the region. The hot weather brought large crowds to the city’s major beaches during the Easter long weekend. The Hong Kong Observatory said on Sunday that an anticyclone aloft…
Temperatures in Hong Kong will rise to as high as 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) on Monday after a few showers over the weekend, according to the city’s weather forecaster. The Observatory said on Friday that the weather would be relatively humid over the coast of Guangdong province on Saturday, while the mercury would range…
Hong Kong’s environment chief will depart for Azerbaijan on Monday to attend the United Nations’ annual climate change summit, while a former head of the city’s weather forecaster has voiced concerns about rising local temperatures. The government said on Sunday that Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan would link up with the Chinese delegation…
The Hong Kong Observatory may issue the No 1 standby signal as early as Friday as typhoon Yinxing intensified gradually into a super typhoon on Wednesday. The weather forecaster on Thursday said Yinxing was expected to enter within 800km (497 miles) of Hong Kong between tonight and Friday morning and move westwards across the northern…
A rare wavelike cloud formation rolled across the sky over Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour in late October, its undulating curves bathed in gold and pink hues amid the glow of the setting sun. The Hong Kong Observatory shared the image on social media on Sunday, saying the short-lived atmospheric phenomenon was known as a fluctus…