People wearing winter coats and scarves walk on a street in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, on Jan 8, 2021. (PARKER ZHENG / CHINA DAILY)

HONG KONG – The Hong Kong Observatory issued a cold weather warning Friday afternoon as the local weather is expected to remain cold in the next few days.

Temperatures in the urban areas will fall progressively from about 16 degree Celsius at first to around 11 degrees and will further drop to around 9 degrees on Sunday and Monday, with a few degrees lower in the New Territories

A cold front will move across the coast of Guangdong in the small hours on Saturday. It will become appreciably cold and windy during the weekend to midweek next week, under the influence of the associated intense winter monsoon, said the observatory.

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Temperatures in the urban areas will fall progressively from about 16 degree Celsius at first to around 11 degrees and will further drop to around 9 degrees on Sunday and Monday, with a few degrees lower in the New Territories, it added. 

Upper-air disturbances will bring unsettled weather and rain will be more frequent. 

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“With the upper-air disturbances departing, the weather will improve over the region in the latter part of next week,” the observatory added.