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Typhoon signal No 1 issued, but Tropical Storm Mawar unlikely to hit Hong Kong
Storm, expected to give the city a wide berth, still causes 20 flights to be cancelled
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Hong Kong woke to a standby typhoon signal on Saturday as Tropical Storm Mawar came within 800km, but forecasters said the city was unlikely to face its third weather-beating in a fortnight.
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But the storm did cause some local disruption, prompting the cancellations of 20 flights to and from the city.
The Observatory issued the No 1 signal, officially the standby signal, at 2.20am.
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By 11.45am, Mawar was estimated to be 320km east-southeast of Hong Kong and forecast to head north-northwest, skirting along the eastern coast of Guangdong province.
The tropical storm was unlikely to get close to Hong Kong. Forecasters had suggested days earlier that the city could face a direct hit from its third typhoon in only two weeks.
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