Hottest day of the year ushers in 9 days of rain, as Hong Kong logs over 6,000 instances of lightening on Friday

Hongkongers sweated through the hottest day of the year on Friday, with the Observatory (HKO) recording a maximum temperature of 34.6 degrees Celsius at its headquarters. The mercury neared 37 degrees Celsius in the northern part of the territory. Meanwhile, the Observatory noted 1,263 instances of cloud-to-ground lightening on Friday, and 4,859 cases of cloud-to-cloud […]

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