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Hong Kong issues first cold weather warning of 2025 as temperatures set to fall
Temperatures forecast to be around 11 degrees in urban areas over the weekend and may drop to seven degrees or below in the New Territories.
9 Jan 2025 - 11:53PM
Hong Kong braces for another typhoon next week, after 11-hour T8 warning
15 Nov 2024 - 7:21AM
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Hong Kong will keep T1 warning until at least 6am on Saturday as Trami nears
25 Oct 2024 - 4:50PM
Society
Hong Kong lowers signal to T3 as Super Typhoon Yagi recedes – as it happened
Transport services gradually resume, people start heading to work as first No 8 signal of the year downgraded.
6 Sep 2024 - 2:11PM
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Although winds are expected to weaken, Hong Kong may experience squally showers with violent gusts. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong
Hong Kong T8 signal over Super Typhoon Yagi to remain in force until at least Friday noon
Suspension of classes at kindergartens, childcare centres, and all-day primary, secondary and special schools will take effect on Thursday afternoon.
6 Sep 2024 - 7:40AM
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Hong Kong
Yagi turns into super typhoon; Hong Kong T3 signal in force until noon at least
Yagi is expected to be closest to Hong Kong on Thursday night, Observatory says.
5 Sep 2024 - 3:53AM
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong issues T1 warning as Severe Tropical Storm Yagi moves closer
Electricity firm CLP Power also says it has taken steps to minimise weather risks to overhead cables.
4 Sep 2024 - 12:03AM
According to the forecaster’s storm tracker, Yagi will enter within 400km of the city on Thursday and intensify into a typhoon. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong
Hong Kong cancels amber rainstorm warning after 2 hours
Alert ends at 4pm, more than two hours after being issued amid warnings of heavy rain possibly bringing flash floods.
18 Jul 2024 - 4:17PM
China
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Deadly tornado hits China’s Shandong province, killing 5 and injuring 88
A powerful tornado hit the city of Heze in China’s eastern province of Shandong on Friday, killing at least five people and injuring 88.
8 Jul 2024 - 2:40PM
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World
2023 confirmed as hottest year ever, as world nears critical 1.5 degree limit
Last year was the planet’s hottest on record by a substantial margin, as climate change, and El Nino fuelled record temperatures, exacerbating heatwaves, floods, and wildfires.
9 Jan 2024 - 9:12PM
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East Asia
Japanese put on clothes with built-in fans, neck coolers as nation swelters
Sales of clothing items with built-in fans and neck coolers are surging in Japan amid the hot and humid summer
19 Aug 2023 - 7:00AM
A shopper in Tokyo checks out jackets designed to be worn with battery-powered fans (sold separately) inside the lining. Photo: AFP
World
‘Dire consequences for the planet’ as July was Earth’s hottest month on record
The world’s oceans also set a new temperature record, raising concerns about knock-on effects on the planet’s climate, marine life and coastal communities.
8 Aug 2023 - 10:20PM
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From China to the US, how El Nino is helping drive heatwaves, extreme weather
El Nino is a natural phenomenon that contributes to higher temperatures in many parts of the world, and also drives tropical cyclones in the Pacific and boosts rainfall and flood risk in the Americas, and Asia.
20 Jul 2023 - 12:24PM
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World swelters to unofficial hottest day ever Monday then gets hotter Tuesday
The daily but preliminary and unofficial heat record comes after months of ‘truly unreal meteorology and climate stats for the year’.
5 Jul 2023 - 11:37PM
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Burning trees in the Amazon melts snow in the Himalayas
Scientists have discovered that when the Amazon warms, so does the Tibetan Plateau, whereas the more it rains in the Amazon, the less it rains in Tibet.
27 Jan 2023 - 8:20PM
A fire burns part of the Amazon jungle as it is cleared by a farmer in Machadinho do Oeste, Rondonia state, Brazil. Photo: Reuters/File
Australasia
Sydney to record wettest year in 164 years; Australia braces for more floods
Australia’s east coast has been gripped by a multi-year rain event due to La Nina. The weather phenomenon typically associated with increased rainfall caused Sydney’s suburbs to flood three times in two years.
6 Oct 2022 - 3:29PM
South Asia
Flood-hit Pakistan breaches largest freshwater lake to prevent overflow
Manchar Lake, which is used for water storage, had reached dangerous levels and posed a threat to surrounding areas in the southern Sindh province.
4 Sep 2022 - 10:06PM
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OPINION
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How long to get over a typhoon? In Philippines, 6 years and counting
2 Dec 2018 - 7:00AM
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Opinion
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17 Oct 2018 - 7:57PM
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Reflections
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27 Sep 2018 - 7:31PM
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22 Sep 2018 - 8:30AM
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Lessons from Typhoon Mangkhut for Trump and the world
21 Sep 2018 - 10:32PM
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Opinion
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Typhoon Mangkhut’s message to Hong Kong: rethink reclamation
21 Sep 2018 - 7:28PM
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