Warm temperatures expected over Lunar New Year holiday in Hong Kong

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.Hongkongers can expect a warm Lunar New Year with maximum temperatures climbing to 23 degrees Celsius when the three-day holiday begins on February 17.According to the Hong Kong Observatory’s nine-day weather forecast, the temperature on the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday will range between 19 and 23 degrees, with mostly cloudy skies and sunny intervals during the day.On Sunday, temperatures dipped to 13 degrees in some urban areas, with most regions recording temperatures four to six degrees lower than those on Saturday.The city will experience another cool morning on Monday due to a strong northeast monsoon affecting the coast of Southern China.“The monsoon will moderate gradually and temperatures will rise in the middle of this week. A fresh easterly airstream is expected to affect the coast of Guangdong in the latter part of this week,” the Observatory said on Sunday.