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Hottest day of the year ushers in 9 days of rain, as Hong Kong logs over 6,000 instances of lightening on Friday
By Tom Grundy
Hongkongers sweated through the hottest day of the year on Friday, with the Observatory (HKO) recording a maximum temperature of 34.6 degrees Celsius at its headquarters. The mercury neared 37 degrees Celsius in the northern part of the territory. Meanwhile, the Observatory noted 1,263 instances of cloud-to-ground lightening on Friday, and 4,859 cases of cloud-to-cloud […]