Weather Chit Chat Issue 98 - New Milestones (September 2025)
“Extreme Total Rainfall of Automatic Weather Stations” webpage launched
The Hong Kong Observatory launched the “Extreme Total Rainfall of Automatic Weather Stations” webpage under the “Climatological Information Services” on 30 June 2025 to further enhance the dissemination of historical extremes from automatic weather stations. (More……)
More computer model forecast products available on “Earth Weather”
The Hong Kong Observatory enhanced the contents of the “Earth Weather” webpage in June 2025 with the addition of products from the artificial intelligence (AI) weather forecast model “Fengwu” and “Area of Potential Thunderstorm” generated by using outputs from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Ensemble Prediction System.(More……)