The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) announced in a statement yesterday that Typhoon “Fung-wong” (鳳凰 – “Phoenix”) has broken the record for the most tropical cyclone warning signals issued by Macau in a single year since records began in 1968, now standing at 14.
The weather station said that although Fung-won swept through the Philippines as a super typhoon, it was significantly weakened by the terrain of Luzon and further influenced by a northeastern monsoon after entering the South China Sea. It ultimately passed about 560 kilometres east of Macau, the observatory noted.
Meanwhile, the weather station forecast that a strong northeastern monsoon will arrive in the coastal areas of southern China early next week, resulting in a significant drop in temperatures.
By the middle of next week, the observatory said, the minimum temperature is expected to fall to between 13 and 15 degrees Celsius.
The bureau said that under the persistent influence of the northeastern monsoon, the weather will become mainly fine and dry over the next couple of days, with relatively cool mornings and evenings.
As the strongest surge of a northeastern monsoon since the start of autumn, the observatory said it expected the monsoon to reach the southern China coast early next week, when Macau will experience a significant strengthening of northerly winds starting from next Monday, accompanied by relatively strong gusts.
The weather station said that the conditions will become very dry next week, with daytime relative humidity potentially dropping to 35 percent or below.
This handout image provided by the local observatory (SMG) yesterday shows three satellite images of Typhoon “Fung-wong” between Sunday and Tuesday.
