The Weather of November 2006
November 2006 was unseasonably warm. The monthly mean temperature of 23.3 degrees reached an all-time high. The monthly rainfall of 99.6 millimetres was about 184 percent above normal. The accumulated rainfall since 1 January amounted to 2597.9 millimetres, about 19 percent above the normal of 2187.0 millimetres for the same period.
Under the combined effect of the northeast monsoon and Typhoon Cimaron, it was windy and dry on the first two days of the month. Fanned by the dry northerlies, the hill fire which occurred at Tai Lam Country Park on 1 November spread across an area of about 450 hectares and destroyed some 65,000 trees.
With a dry continental airstream prevailing over southern China, the weather remained generally fine and dry from 3 to 12 November. The weather turned cloudy on 13 November when a broad cloud band associated with Tropical Storm Chebi covered the south China coastal areas. It remained mainly cloudy with a few rain patches in the following seven days.
A broad band of rain and thunderstorms affected southern China on 21 November. Locally, the weather was overcast with heavy rain and squally thunderstorms. More than 100 millimetres of rainfall was recorded at Wu Kau Tang and Ma On Shan on that day.
The passage of a weak cold front on 22 November brought slightly cooler weather to Hong Kong. Another cold front moved across the coastal areas of Guangdong on 27 November. The minimum temperature fell to 18.7 degrees at the Observatory on 28 November, the lowest so far this autumn. The weather was mainly cloudy with a few rain patches from 22 to 29 November. Sunny intervals returned when the clouds thinned out on 30 November.
Three tropical cyclones occurred in the western North Pacific and the South China Sea in the month. An overview
of the tropical cyclones is presented in
"Tropical Cyclones Reports and Publications" webpage.
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