Hong Kong battered by record rain

Parts of Hong Kong were hit with flooding after the highest-tier rainstorm warning is issued for the fourth time in eight days on Wednesday, beating the previous record of three such warnings in a year.

The city logged its highest daily rainfall in August since records began in 1884, with just over 355 millimetres recorded at the Observatory on Wednesday.

In full: https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/05/wid... Video: AFP.

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