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Typhoon signal in Hong Kong unlikely in next 2 days but expect unsettled weather

Observatory revises earlier prediction that typhoon signal could be issued on Tuesday or Wednesday, but residents can still expect thunderstorms

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Fair weather over Hong Kong’s Sai Ying Pun waterfront on Monday. Photo: Karma Lo
Leopold Chen

The likelihood that Hong Kong’s weather forecaster will issue a typhoon signal in the next two days is “relatively low”, although multiple tropical cyclones are set to bring unsettled weather to the city later this week.

The Observatory said at noon on Monday that Tropical Storm Narra was expected to skirt the coast of the Leizhou Peninsula in western Guangdong province in the coming days while “maintaining some distance from Hong Kong”.

“Unless Narra further edges closer to the vicinity of the Pearl River Delta, the chance of issuing a tropical cyclone warning signal is relatively low,” it said, revising its earlier prediction on Sunday that it could issue a typhoon signal on Tuesday or Wednesday as Narra approached the Guangdong coast.

Narra, a name provided by the Philippines, means Burmese rosewood.

On Monday, the Observatory said Hong Kong could expect showers and squally thunderstorms in the middle of the week under the influence of a southerly airstream, with occasionally strong winds offshore and on high ground.

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