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| Filipinas dance on Chater Road on Sunday, unmindful of the heat (Photo from Satur Tiamson) |
The Observatory has forecast temperatures rising to as high as 38 degrees in some parts of the New Territories on Tuesday and Wednesday as Severe Typhoon Mawar nears northern Philippines.
Previously, the weather forecaster said the heat generated
by the powerful typhoon would cause temperatures to hit a high of 36 degrees in
Sheung Shui and other areas, while it would be two degrees lower in the urban
areas.
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The New Territories often get the brunt of extreme
weather conditions, getting much colder than the rest of the city during the
winter, and much hotter during the summer.
In July last year, Sheung Shui baked in 39-degree temperature in one of the hottest summers ever recorded in Hong Kong
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Earlier on Sunday, the mercury tipped above 32
degrees at around 2pm.
It is forecast to go up slightly on Monday, with the maximum temperature rising to 33 degrees in the urban areas and a couple of degrees higher in the New Territories.
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The Observatory has issued a reminder to residents to stay alert and drink more water as the days progressively get warmer.
Meanwhile, Severe Typhoon Mawar, which is the
Malaysian word for rose, was last centred 750 kilometers northeast of Manila is
forecast to move northwest or west-northwest at the weakened speed of about 12
kilometres per hour across the seas east of Luzon.
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The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and
Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said the typhoon, locally named “Betty,”
has weakened as it moved towards the Philippine sea east of Northern Luzon.
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However, it said flash floods and landslides “will
likely occur across the country” especially over the western portions of
Mimaropa, Western Visayas, Central and Southern Luzon due to southwest monsoon,
starting on Monday.
The typhoon is expected to drop speed in the next 38
hours and will become “slow-moving to almost stationary” by Tuesday.
It is forecast to move towards the sea east of Taiwan by mid-Wednesday.
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