Mercury set to go as low as 7 degrees Celsius early next week as band of cloud blankets region
Hong Kong’s sunny New Year is set to give way to a rainy weekend and plunging temperatures, with the mercury possibly hitting 7 degrees Celsius by early next week.
The city welcomed in 2018 with mild weather and some sunshine on Monday. Temperatures hovered between 16 and 20 degrees and the good weather was expected to stretch through to Wednesday.
But the latest nine-day forecast by the Hong Kong Observatory showed an easterly airstream would affect the coast of southern China in the next few days.
Temperatures will start to drop from Wednesday, as a broad band of cloud covers the coast and the northern part of the South China Sea, bringing rain to the region.
