Temperatures in Hong Kong’s urban areas will fall to around 13 degrees Celsius while it will be a couple of degrees lower in the New Territories on Monday morning, according to the city’s weather forecaster.

With a few rain patches in the following couple of days, temperatures will rise progressively and it will be relatively humid in the middle and latter parts of next week, the Hong Kong Observatory said in a bulletin at 4:15 pm on Saturday.

Saturday remained mainly cloudy with the temperature ranging between 15 and 18 degrees.

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There can be one or two rain patches Saturday night and Sunday morning, the observatory said, forecasting moderate to fresh easterly winds, which will become northerlies Sunday morning.

“A fresh northeast monsoon is affecting the coast of Guangdong. Meanwhile, a band of clouds is covering the region and the northern part of the South China Sea,” reads the bulletin.

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Pointing out that pressure is rising over central China, it said a replenishment of the monsoon is expected to affect the coast of southern China gradually on Sunday morning.