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Hong Kong temperatures exceed 38 degrees as Severe Typhoon Dolphin brings extreme heat

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5h ago Hong Kong records hottest day ever as Typhoon Dolphin fuels heatwave https://commons.now/link/hong-kong-records-hottest-day-ever-as-typhoon-dolphin-fuels-heatwave #Heatwave #Hong #Kong #Typhoon ×3 -4.0
11h ago Typhoon Dolphin cancels Hong Kong flights to Okinawa, tour groups remain safe in hotels https://www.alojapan.com/1522490/typhoon-dolphin-cancels-hong-kong-flights-to-okinawa-tour-groups-remain-saf… ×3 -1.5
14h ago Dolphin has also brought torrential rains to the Philippines – where eight people died – as well as to parts of northern Taiwan and Japan's Okinawa island before bearing down on China, Hong Kong o… ×3 -6.0
16h ago Hong Kong records hottest day ever as Typhoon Dolphin fuels heatwave Observatory says 36.9C posted on Sunday is city’s highest official temperature since its records began 142 years ago, with storm… ×3 -7.0
18h ago Typhoon Dolphin brings record-breaking 36.9°C heat to Hong Kong; meteorologists monitor situation. #TyphoonDolphin https://fefd.link/3EZT7 ×3 -3.5
18h ago Is anyone else playing spot the reference to El Nino in media coverage of the extreme heat in Hong Kong? Shall we put up a couple of exciting graphics for context? Heat + air con + urban heat isl… ×2 -4.0
23h ago Hong Kong records hottest day ever as Typhoon Dolphin fuels heatwave www.15minutenews.com/article/2026... ×3 -5.0
1d ago Hong Kong records hottest day ever as Typhoon Dolphin fuels heatwave www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... It really is most worrying. ×3 -6.0
1d ago Hong Kong records hottest day ever as Typhoon Dolphin fuels heatwave: Hong Kong recorded its highest temperature in history on Sunday as Typhoon Dolphin swept warm air over the city, the Hong Kong … ×3 -4.0
1d ago Hong Kong officially recorded its highest ever temperature of 36.9C on Sunday, a record dating back 142 years, as Typhoon Dolphin brought warm air and fueled an intense heatwave across the region. … ×3 -3.5
1d ago Hong Kong records hottest day ever as Typhoon Dolphin fuels heatwave www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... ×3 -5.0
1d ago #extreme heat #heat #heatwave #Hong Kong #weather 🌐 www.newsmart.ch ×2 -4.0
1d ago https://internoticies.pongo.cat/news/news_20260810_031442_93eedc317e https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/10/hong-kong-heat-record-hottest-day-ever-typhoon-dolphin ×3 -3.5
1d ago Hong Kong records hottest day ever as #Typhoon Dolphin fuels heatwave. Observatory says 36.9C posted on Sunday is city’s highest official temperature since its records began 142 years ago, with sto… ×3 -3.5
1d ago Hong Kong recorded a record 36.9°C as Typhoon Dolphin brought extremely hot weather, prompting warnings, travel disruptions, and evacuations across China’s east coast. ×3 -4.0
1d ago Hong Kong records hottest day ever as Typhoon Dolphin fuels heatwave ×3 -2.0
1d ago Hong Kong records hottest day ever as Typhoon Dolphin fuels heatwave Observatory says 36.9C posted on Sunday is city’s highest official temperature since its records began 142 years ago, with stor… ×3 -3.0
1d ago Hong Kong Hits Record 36.9 Degrees Celsius #HongKong #Heatwave #RecordTemperatures #TyphoonDolphin #GlobalWarming ×2 -4.0
1d ago For Pregnant Women in Hong Kong, Extreme Heat Is a Silent Threat with No Warning As climate change supercharges summers in Hong Kong and across Asia, pregnant women are enduring unprecedented heatw… ×2 -4.0
1d ago HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN CHINA All time records:36.8 Sansha,37.0 Shangchuanda Also 7 Monthly records of Max. Temperature 15 Monthly records of High Minimum,including 6 all time High Insne MINIMUM o… ×2 -5.5
1d ago Hong Kong records hottest day in 142 years as Typhoon Dolphin brings extreme heat: Hong Kong recorded its hottest day since records began in 1884 on Sunday afternoon, as Severe Typhoon Dolphin's ou… ×3 -5.0
1d ago 🇭🇰 Hong Kong's weather observatory posted a record high temperature of 36.9C on Sunday as Typhoon Dolphin swept warm air over the city, the meteorological service said. ➡️ u.afp.com/SHgA ×3 -2.5
1d ago ⚡ BREAKING: Hong Kong hits record 36.9°C on Sunday — highest since records began in 1884, the Hong Kong Observatory says. Blistering heat linked to subsiding air on the periphery of Typhoon Dolphin… ×3 -5.0
1d ago [Disaster] Typhoon Dolphin forces evacuations and cancels flights in China, Hong Kong records hottest day in 142 years https://globalperspective.net/ #China #HongKong #disaster #GlobalPerspective… ×3 -3.5
1d ago Tropical Cyclone Dolphin: Hong Kong sees hottest day on record as Observatory HQ records 36.9°C 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/08/09/t... ×3 -2.5
12h ago King Kong gets all red after weeks of this heat wave. -1.5
27m ago Airport closes in Okinawa as Typhoon Dolphin hits parts of southern Japan https://www.alojapan.com/1522650/airport-closes-in-okinawa-as-typhoon-dolphin-hits-parts-of-southern-japan-3/ The typhoon…
32m ago Typhoon Dolphin: Beijing braces for one-third of its annual rainfall as storm sweeps China ×2
1h ago https://internoticies.pongo.cat/news/news_20260811_051559_a1f84dc6c2 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/11/typhoon-dolphin-beijing-rainfall-flood-warnings-china -5.0
1h ago Typhoon Dolphin is expected to bring Beijing over 150mm of rain in 24 hours, triggering flood alerts, closures, and construction suspensions. -4.0

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T3 Hong Kong temperatures exceed 38 degrees as Severe Typhoon Dolphin brings extreme heat weather_heat scmp.com scorching, oppressive, hazardous
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T3 Hong Kong weather observatory posts record high temperature weather_heat bssnews.net record-breaking, stifling, alarming
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T3 Hong Kong records highest temperature since 1884 weather_heat hongkongherald.com scorching, historic, unsettling
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T3 Hong Kong records highest temperature since 1884 weather_heat chinanationalnews.com historic, unsettling, extreme
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T3 Hong Kong hits record 36.9 degrees Celsius-Xinhua weather_heat english.news.cn scorching, oppressive, alarming
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T4 Hong Kong hits record 36.9 degrees Celsius weather_heat bignewsnetwork.com scorching, oppressive, alarming
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