Cold front to sweep across Hong Kong on Monday night, bringing 15-degree lows

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.\nA cold front will begin to affect Hong Kong on Monday night, pushing temperatures to as low as 15 degrees Celsius (59 Fahrenheit) the following day, the city’s forecaster has said.\nThe Observatory said on Sunday that the cold front was expected to move across the coast of Guangdong from Monday evening to early Tuesday.\n“Under the influence of the associated intense northeast monsoon and a broad band of clouds, it will be windy and appreciably cooler over the region by midweek,” it said.\nTemperatures will be as low as 15 degrees on Tuesday before dropping even further to 14 degrees over the following two days, according to the present forecast. It will be cloudy and very dry during the day.\nThe Observatory added that the northeast monsoon will gradually moderate later in the week and temperatures will start to rise accordingly.\n“However, mornings will remain cool,” the forecaster said. “The temperature difference between day and night will be quite large.”\nOn Sunday, the dry northeast monsoon kept humidity across Hong Kong at around 60 per cent, with temperatures reaching as high as 27 degrees.\nAhead of the cold front on Monday night, urban areas are also expected to see highs of about 27 degrees, with the New Territories a few degrees warmer.\n