{"id":3975,"date":"2015-08-09T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T04:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2015-08-09T00:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T04:06:50","slug":"hong-kong-sets-new-all-time-record-high-with-help-from-typhoon-soudelor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/08\/hong-kong-sets-new-all-time-record-high-with-help-from-typhoon-soudelor\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong sets new all-time record high with help from Typhoon Soudelor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yahoo News<\/em> reported today that Hong Kong reported its highest temperature ever on Saturday in 130 years of record. \u00a0The new high temperature of 36.3 degrees C (97.4 F) came in part due to sinking air outside the circulation of Typhone\u00a0Soudelor. \u00a0Typhoon Soudelor ripped up trees and triggered landslides in Taiwan, and knocked out power to 1.5 million homes, before churning towards China (note typhoons are the same kinds of storm as hurricanes but are historically named separately\u00a0by ocean basin). \u00a0<em>Mashable<\/em> has some nice pictures of Soudelor from a few days ago at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/08\/03\/super-typhoon-soudelor-cat5-monster\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/08\/03\/super-typhoon-soudelor-cat5-monster\/<\/a>. \u00a0Soudelor is now a tropical storm after passing over Taiwan and heading inland into China.<\/p>\n<p>In the Southeast we sometimes also see this effect from the circulation surrounding a hurricane. \u00a0Rising air in the center of the hurricane reaches upper levels of the atmosphere and spreads out, cooling and sinking outside of the ring of storms that make up the hurricane. \u00a0Often when a hurricane is approaching there will be clear skies all around and warm conditions due to both the subsidence and sunny weather. \u00a0You can see an animation of this circulation <a href=\"https:\/\/apollo.lsc.vsc.edu\/~wintelsw\/MET1212\/web\/notes\/chapter16\/graphics\/anim_xsect2.gif\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3976\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/SoudelorTrueColor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3976\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/SoudelorTrueColor-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Super Typhoon Soudelor seen from Japan's Himawari-8 Satellite on Monday August 3, 2015\" width=\"437\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/SoudelorTrueColor-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/SoudelorTrueColor-246x138.jpg 246w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/SoudelorTrueColor.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Typhoon Soudelor seen from Japan&#8217;s Himawari-8 Satellite on Monday August 3, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News reported today that Hong Kong reported its highest temperature ever on Saturday in 130 years of record. \u00a0The new high temperature of 36.3 degrees C (97.4 F) came in part due to sinking air outside the circulation of Typhone\u00a0Soudelor. \u00a0Typhoon Soudelor ripped up trees and triggered landslides in Taiwan, and knocked out power 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