HK Sees First Very Hot Weather Alert Of The Year

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2018-05-03 HKT 14:02

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  Temperatures topped 34 degrees Celsius on Thursday morning. File photo: Shutterstock

Leung Wing-mo talks to RTHK's Richard Pyne

The Observatory has issued its first "very hot weather" warning of the year, making it the earliest such alert since the system was introduced in 2000.

Thursday's warning came nine days before the earliest in the year previously recorded, in 2011.

Temperatures in some parts of the New Territories topped 34 degrees Celsius in the morning.

A senior scientific officer at the Observatory, Li Sun-wai, said the hot weather was due to the sunshine and light winds.

But he said the afternoon was likely to be cooler because of strengthening winds and more cloud.

Leung Wing-mo from the Hong Kong Meteorological Society told RTHK's Richard Pyne that we shouldn't read too much into the early warning and any link to global warming.