Into the comfort zone: cool autumn days ahead as temperatures dip
At last, the weather is in the comfortable zone - and it's likely to stay that way for the rest of the week.
At last, the weather is in the comfortable zone - and it's likely to stay that way for the rest of the week.
With temperatures across the region dropping, it looks and feels like the hot, humid weather is behind us and we're officially into autumn - good news for the protesters camped out on the streets of Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok.
Influenced by a dry northeast monsoon, Hongkongers can expect cooler and drier weather, with the lowest temperature hovering between 23 and 25 degrees Celsius and humidity levels ranging from 50 to 70 per cent.
The minimum temperatures recorded across the city yesterday were generally 1 to 2 degrees lower than the day before.
At the Observatory's headquarters in Tsim Sha Tsui, the lowest temperature of 23.8 degrees was recorded at about 8am, which was 1.2 degrees below the minimum on Sunday.
But the humidity level there increased slightly compared to Sunday, when the relative reading dropped below 40 per cent.
At noon yesterday, humidity was still hovering between 40 and 50 per cent.
The temperature drop was more obvious at the Chek Lap Kok airport, with the lowest reading falling by 1.4 degrees to 24.6 degrees yesterday morning. Humidity also fell to 38 per cent there at about noon yesterday.
On Lantau Island at Ngong Ping, which is about 460 metres above sea level, the temperature fell below the 20 degree mark to 19.8 degrees.
According to the Observatory, a dry northeast monsoon affecting southern mainland coastal areas is contributing to the cooler weather. "Locally, the relative humidity over many places fell below 50 per cent around noon," it reported on its website.
The outlook would remain fine with slightly cooler mornings for the next couple of days, the Observatory said.
