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In pictures: Hong Kong’s coldest days from the 1970s to 2010s

It doesn’t happen often, but Hong Kong occasionally experiences frost and ice during cold snaps, as these images from our archives capture

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Visitors bundled up against the cold to see the frost on Tai Mo Shan, where the temperature fell to minus three degrees Celsius in December 1975. Photo: SCMP Archives
Alexander Mak

Freezing temperatures are rare in Hong Kong, and frost is rarer still. But in decades past, a handful of particularly cold days transformed Tai Mo Shan into an ice-crusted winterscape.

Here’s a look back at how South China Morning Post photographers captured Hong Kong’s frostiest moments from the 1970s to the 2010s.

Bushes on Tai Mo Shan are weighed down with hoar frost as temperatures on the mountain plunged below freezing in 1975. Photo: SCMP Archives
Bushes on Tai Mo Shan are weighed down with hoar frost as temperatures on the mountain plunged below freezing in 1975. Photo: SCMP Archives
A plant on Tai Mo Shan covered with frost in January 1990. Photo: SCMP Archives
A plant on Tai Mo Shan covered with frost in January 1990. Photo: SCMP Archives
A child enjoys the cold snap at Tai Mo Shan Country Park in December 1991. Photo: SCMP Archives
A child enjoys the cold snap at Tai Mo Shan Country Park in December 1991. Photo: SCMP Archives
Locals head to Tai Mo Shan to see the frost in December 1991. Photo: SCMP Archives
Locals head to Tai Mo Shan to see the frost in December 1991. Photo: SCMP Archives
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