Recent days of heavy rainfall show the kind of weather Hong Kong must prepare for in an era of accelerating climate change
The Observatory has recorded sea surface temperatures increasing at 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade since 1975. Air temperatures are increasing, too, at a rate of 0.37 degrees per decade since 1995, a rate more than twice as fast as the trend from 1885 to 2024.
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