Hong Kong bracing for a hot, damp spell with humidity reaching 95% by midweek

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.Hong Kong is set for a hot and damp week ahead, with the city’s forecaster predicting relative humidity to reach as high as 95 per cent from Wednesday as seasonal coastal mist moves in.The Observatory said on Monday that daytime temperatures would rise to 28 degrees Celsius (82 Fahrenheit) later this week as a band of cloud affected the Guangdong coast and winds weakened.“Winds are expected to be weak over Guangdong in the latter part of this week. It will be hot during the day. Under the influence of a trough of low pressure, there will be a few showers over southern China early next week,” the forecaster said.According to the nine-day forecast, the city will experience a spell of warm and increasingly humid weather as an anticyclone strengthens over the South China Sea.The week will start with mainly fine and sunny conditions on Monday and Tuesday, with temperatures reaching highs of 27 degrees Celsius, The Observatory said.