HONG KONG ISSUES RED RAINSTORM WARNING AS THUNDERY SHOWERS TO LAST OVER WEEKEND

Heavy thundery showers are expected in Hong Kong on Friday and will continue until Monday, according to the city’s weather forecaster, which escalated the rainstorm warning to red in the morning. The Observatory raised the amber rainstorm warning to red at 11.05am on Friday, meaning that more than 50mm (2 inches) of rain had fallen in an hour or was likely to fall generally over the city.

News - South China Morning Post reports that heavy thundery showers are expected in Hong Kong on Friday and will continue until Monday, according to the city’s weather forecaster, which escalated the rainstorm warning to red in the morning.

The report adds: The Observatory raised the amber rainstorm warning to red at 11.05am on Friday, meaning that more than 50mm (2 inches) of rain had fallen in an hour or was likely to fall generally over the city.

“Showers and thunderstorms associated with a broad trough of low pressure are affecting the coast of...

This report is covered across the current DAMMNEWS feeds. Science and weather reports need scale and time context. A single measurement or forecast is not the same as a confirmed long-term trend.

This is a developing report. DAMMNEWS will surface related coverage as closely matched reporting enters the live cache.

DAMMNEWS RSS BRIEFING — generated locally from the available News - South China Morning Post headline and RSS excerpt. It is not a summary of the full source article.