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Weather

Average annual rainfall

2 214.3 mm

   

Wettest period

Hourly
daily
monthly

109.9 mm (May 8, 1992)
534.1 mm (July 19, 1926)
1 241.1 mm (May 1889)


Driest

10% humidity (January 16, 1959)

 

Highest temperature

36.1oC (August 19, 1900 and August 18, 1990)

 

Lowest temperature

0.0oC (January 18, 1893)

 

Highest wind speed (gust)

259 km/h at HK Observatory, 284 km/h at Tate's Cairn
(Typhoon Wanda, September 1, 1962)



Notes:

figures presented on this page refer to those released up to end-March 2004
# provisional figures

+

less than 0.005 million

     
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