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The Hong Kong Observatory cancelled an amber rainstorm warning on Saturday afternoon, less than an hour after it went up.
The forecaster earlier in the day went from an amber to a red signal, and said at 12.15pm that could it upgrade the warning again to black.
But the abrupt weather change prompted the forecaster to cancel the warning and remove any mention of a higher alert in a later update.
The downgrade to amber took place at 1.20pm, meaning heavy rain exceeding 30mm had fallen or was expected to fall in an hour.
The red rainstorm warning before that was issued at 12.05pm, with the forecaster saying the weather was due to an area of low pressure moving across the vicinity of the Pearl River Delta, resulting in an intense rainband.
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