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The total land area of Hong Kong is 1,076 square kilometres, but about 75% of this land is open countryside, [1] which contains more than 2600 species of vascular plants, about 450 species of birds, about 200 species of butterflies, about 100 species of dragonflies, 40 species of mammals, 80 species of reptiles and more than 20 species of amphibians, including some that are endemic to the ...
Hong Kong: 39.0 °C (102.2 °F) ... Highest average monthly temperature: 42.3 °C (108.1 °F), in Death Valley, California, for the month of July 2018.
This is a list of cities by average temperature (monthly and yearly). The temperatures listed are averages of the daily highs and lows. Thus, the actual daytime temperature in a given month may be considerably higher than the temperature listed here, depending on how large the difference between daily highs and lows is.
Historic temperature extremes at the Hong Kong Observatory are 36.6 °C (97.9 °F) on 22 August 2017 and 0.0 °C (32.0 °F) on 18 January 1893, record highest daily minimum temperature there was 30.1 °C (86.2 °F) on 18 August 1990 and the lowest daily maximum temperature there was 3.2 °C (37.8 °F) on 16 January 1893.
Hong Kong's climate is subtropical and monsoonal (Köppen: Cwa), with cool dry winters and hot and wet summers.As of 2006, its annual average rainfall is 2,214 mm (87.2 in), though about 80% of the rain falls between May and September.
William Yu is giving a tour of a Hong Kong apartment where each of the three bedrooms has been divided into a separate flat - part of a lab he has set up to show how many families live in small ...
In August 2006, Typhoon Prapiroon neared Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Observatory refused to raise the typhoon signal no. 8. This decision triggered intense public discussions. Weather Underground published a report [3] later on, questioning the validity of the Tropical Cyclone Warning System for Hong Kong. This led to the revision of the system by ...
Hong Kong has ordered the culling of almost two thousand pigs after confirming a second case of African swine fever (ASF) in a month. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD ...