The Observatory Delivers Weather News on Weibo

Starting from today (23 March 2011), the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) delivers latest news and real-time weather warnings on Weibo* website. These include tropical cyclone warning, rainstorm warning, thunderstorm warning, landslip warning, special announcement on flooding in the northern part of the New Territories, very hot weather warning, cold weather warning, strong monsoon signal, fire danger warning, frost warning and news about storm surge and tsunami.

Following Twitter, the Observatory once again makes use of social networking website to disseminate latest weather information and warnings to a wider audience. On following "HongKongObservatory", HKO's official weather accounts on Weibo, you will be kept posted with the latest weather news including the latest warnings in force.

The official HKO Weibo account is available at http://t.sina.com.cn/observatoryhk. A link is also available on the front-page of the Observatory's website.

* Note: Weibo is a social networking website enabling users to send messages and read messages posted by other users.