Social media users posted footage of lightning, with one capturing a dramatic strike at the Wo Tin public housing estate.
Hong Kong on Thursday morning recorded more than 10,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes amid an amber rainstorm warning that lasted for less than three hours.
Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with, our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. Clarence Fong Chi-kong, a meteorologist at the Macau-based ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee under the UN, said Hong Kong’s amount of lightning strikes in the morning was “relatively high” and linked to the outer rain bands of Typhoon Mawar.“There may be items carrying static electricity near the window or outside the wall,” Fong suggested of the incident captured in the video.
“Rain is particularly heavy in Peng Chau in Islands district and Tuen Mun district, with more than 70 millimetres of rain [having fallen] hourly or expected to fall,” the forecaster said at 6.23am.
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