Hong Kong’s temperature on Sunday reached the very best recorded stage throughout the month of March in 140 years, based on town’s observatory.
The utmost temperature measured on the Observatory was 31.5C (88.7F) — the very best reported throughout the month of March since data started in 1884 — whereas it surged to above 32C within the northern areas of the territory near the mainland Chinese language metropolis of Shenzhen.
On Thursday, the observatory warned that town is anticipated to see above-normal imply temperatures this yr, “with a excessive probability of reaching the warmest high 10 on report.” Local weather change has brought about searing warmth, and rising frequency and depth of extraordinarily climate occasions the world over.
Hong Kong skilled the most popular summer season on report final yr, measured by the common temperature of 29.7C between June and August, the observatory mentioned in a January report. All 12 months of 2023 had been hotter than ordinary. The town reported 1 / 4 of the conventional annual whole rainfall within the 24 hours ending 4 p.m. on Sept. 7 throughout a black rainstorm, simply shy of the report quantity in Could 1889.
The rainstorm and storm Saola resulted in mixed gross insurance coverage claims of HK$1.9 billion ($243 million), based on a Dec. 4 assertion from town’s Insurance coverage Authority.
