Tropical Storm Pabuk brought heavy rain and high winds to Hong Kong yesterday and triggered the year's first tropical storm warning.
Winds gusting up to 90km/h were recorded at Tai O on Lantau. Fortune Ferry suspended services between Tuen Mun, Tung Chung, Sha Lo Wan and Tai O at around 5pm.
Port operators halted container movements.
The Observatory issued the standby signal No1 in the morning, and followed it with a thunderstorm warning in the afternoon. At midnight, the storm, packing winds of 84km/h was centred about 180km east of Hong Kong and moving westwards at 20km/h.
Observatory senior scientific officer Edwin Ginn Wing-lui said Pabuk would slow down significantly and weaken to a tropical depression under the influence of another tropical storm, Wutip.
That storm was centred southeast of Taiwan but was forecast to strengthen to a severe tropical storm, packing winds of 102km/h, gusting to 148km/h, as it moved northwest across Taiwan towards Fujian .
