With 2017 closing as one of the top three hottest years on record according to the World Meteorological Organisation, we look back on how Hong Kong weathered a year of torrid heat, pounding typhoons and lashing thunderstorms.
Sweltering temperatures
– Eight Hong Kong temperature records were broken in 2017
– On August 22, the city sweltered under a scorching 36.6 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature ever recorded since the Observatory began compiling data in 1884. It beat the...
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