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Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) issued a flood warning for Northern New Territories at 7:50 pm. [7] Heavy rainfall then spread to the entire territory, forcing the HKO to issue the Amber rainstorm signal, and later the Red signal in less than half an hour. At 11:05 pm, the highest warning level, Black rainstorm signal, was issued due to worsening ...
Record-breaking rainfall in Hong Kong caused widespread flash flooding across the financial hub on Friday, with many businesses and schools forced to shut, just days after the city was battered by ...
The Black Rainstorm signal lasted over 16 hours, the longest duration ever since the rainstorm warning system was implemented in 1992. The HKO headquarters accumulated over 632 millimetres (24.9 in) of rainfall within 24 hours, a 24-hour rainfall rate trailing only the record set in May 1889.
BLACK rainstorm signal This signal means: Very heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall generally over Hong Kong, exceeding 70 millimetres in an hour, and is likely to continue. [1] When the BLACK signal (Chinese: 黑色暴雨警告) is issued, Hong Kong will come to a complete standstill. Schools will not dismiss students unless there is a ...
The June 2008 Hong Kong Rainstorm was a rainstorm in Hong Kong on 7 June 2008 that caused flooding and landslides. It resulted in 2 deaths and 16 injuries. [ 1 ] The Hong Kong Observatory recorded 145.5mm of precipitation at its headquarters between 08:00 to 09:00, setting the 2nd highest one-hour precipitation record.
Hong Kong has similar official five-level definition warning signals, which use descriptions of winds taken from the Beaufort Scale. The Hong Kong levels, however, do not correspond to the Beaufort Scale, which has 12 levels. The lowest level of the Hong Kong system No. 1 does not correspond to any wind strength. Instead, it is an alert based ...
HOY TV (channel 77): Formerly named Fantastic TV Chinese Channel and Hong Kong Open TV (Chinese: 香港開電視).; HOY International Business Channel (Chinese: HOY國際財經台, channel 76): The channel was tentatively named Fantastic TV English Channel, but after Forever Top's acquisition of Fantastic Television's parent company I-Cable Communications in 2017, it was later announced in ...
Black rainstorm signal, the third level of Hong Kong rainstorm warning signals; Schwarzer Regen (lit. Black Rain), a fictional exoskeleton in the Japanese light novel series Infinite Stratos; Black Reign (disambiguation) Dark Rain, The Outer Limits (1995 TV series) episode