The Observatory launches an enhanced version of the regional weather web page

18 March 2013

Even though Hong Kong is such a small place, weather can be quite different over different parts of the territory. As a result, the Observatory's regional weather web page has always been very popular, with the number of page visits increasing and exceeding one billion in 2012.

To facilitate easier appreciation of the regional weather variations in Hong Kong, the Observatory has launched a new regional weather web page today (18 March), based on a geographic information system platform. The new webpage allows users to display different weather elements such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, etc, over a detailed map. They can also overlay radar images and lightning locations on the map, as well as zoom in or out, or pan to specific areas of interest. In addition, observations recorded at a particular location can be collectively displayed simply by clicking over the relevant weather station.

Members of the public are welcome to browse the web page at http://maps.weather.gov.hk/.

Hong Kong Regional Weather Web Page (Geographic Information System Platform Version)

Note: The above-mentioned web page is best viewed by browsers that comply with HTML5 standard and support JavaScripts (e.g. Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer 9 or above). For other browsers, you may not be able to use some special features of the web page and the response could be relatively slow.