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Written by: Golden Chess Deng Haixing
2020-08-18 03:40
Last update date: 2020-08-18 03:47An area of low pressure near Luzon in the Philippines entered 800 kilometers of Hong Kong yesterday (17th). In the early morning of today (18th), the low pressure area strengthened into a tropical depression. The Observatory issued alert No. 1 at 3:40 am The signal indicates that the tropical cyclone has gathered within about 800 kilometers of Hong Kong and may affect Hong Kong.
The Observatory predicts that the tropical depression will move across the northern part of the South China Sea in the next two or three days, moving to western Guangdong to Hainan Island, and its intensity is still variable.
(Observatory website)
The Observatory said that due to the unstable weather associated with low-pressure areas, there were heavy showers and squally thunderstorms along the coast of Guangdong in the middle of this week, with strong winds and swells on the sea. The public should pay attention to weather changes. The Observatory will closely monitor the impact of the vast low pressure area on the weather in Hong Kong.
According to the European and American forecast system, the low pressure area was the closest to Hong Kong on Wednesday (19th), and the intensity reached a tropical depression. The observatory is expected to be cloudy on Wednesday, with occasional squally heavy showers and thunderstorms; winds blowing from east to southeast with force 5 to 6. According to Beaufort's wind scale, the average wind speed of strong winds of level 6 reaches 41 to 51 kilometers per hour, which can reach the wind of Typhoon No. 3.
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The Central Meteorological Observatory in the Mainland stated that the low-pressure center will move to the northwest at a speed of about 20 kilometers per hour, and moved into the northeastern part of the South China Sea last night. After that, the intensity gradually strengthens and will develop into the seventh this year today (18th). Typhoon No. 1 then gradually approached the coast from western Guangdong to northeastern Hainan, and it will make landfall on the aforementioned coast from the early morning to the morning of the 20th.
The weather in Hong Kong is cloudy and variable. (Profile picture/Photo by Liao Yanxiong)
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