Observatory cancels all Tropical Cyclone signals
The Observatory cancelled all Tropical Cyclone signals at 11:40 pm on Saturday evening, as storm Saola continues to weaken and move further away from Hong Kong. It said local winds were also weakening progressively. It had replaced the No 3 signal with the standby signal No 1 at 8:20 pm. At 4.20 pm, the Observatory had replaced the No 8 signal with No 3 signal.  In the early hours of Saturday morning, the super typhoon had skirted about 30 kilometres to the south of Hong Kong. The storm's proximity to the SAR, and its strength, had earlier resulted in the Observatory issuing the No 10 Hurricane signal for the first time in five years on Friday evening. It was in force for about seven-and-a-half hours until 3.40 am on Saturday. But Hong Kong appears to have emerged relatively unscathed from the storm, when compared to the last time the number 10 signal was issued in September 2018 during Typhoon Mangkhut.

Last updated: 2023-09-02 HKT 23:45 