Hottest New Year's Eve on record: Observatory
This New Year's Eve was Hong Kong's hottest on record with the maximum temperature hitting 25.7 degrees as of 1pm, the Observatory said on Sunday.  The forecaster said the hot weather came as pressure was rising over south-eastern China but that the north-east monsoon was expected to reach the coast of southern China on Sunday evening, bringing windier weather.  "Under the influence of a replenishment of the monsoon, it will be persistently cool in the morning and at night over southern China in the middle and latter parts of this week," the Observatory said. The Observatory began keeping records in 1884.