Hong Kong logs warmest winter on record, averaging 2 degrees Celsius above normal

Hong Kong experienced its warmest winter on record between December and February, according to the city’s forecaster, with a mean temperature of 19.3 degrees Celsius (67 Fahrenheit) – two degrees above normal. The Hong Kong Observatory on Tuesday also attributed the unseasonably warm February to a weaker-than-normal northeast monsoon over southern China for most of the month, resulting in a mean temperature of 20.1 degrees Celsius, three degrees above normal. “Together with the well above nor...

By Ambrose Li