South China Morning Post: Hong Kong residents should brace themselves for between four and seven typhoons this year, local meteorologists have warned.
The Observatory itself is also girding up for a trying time, because of increasingly unpredictable or extreme weather brought about by climate change.
Freak conditions around the world in recent months - severe flooding in Britain, extreme cold hitting North America and a record-breaking heatwave across Australia - signalled the uphill task ahead, Observatory director...