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Home > Library Notices > Arrangements for Opening of Public Libraries under Inclement Weather Conditions

Arrangements for Opening of Public Libraries under Inclement Weather Conditions

18.07.2024

Arrangements for Static Libraries under Inclement Weather Conditions

	Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal / “Extreme Conditions” / Rainstorm Warning Signal in force before Library Opening Hours	Tropical Cyclone / Rainstorm Warning Signal issued during Library Opening Hours	Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal / “Extreme Conditions” / Rainstorm Warning Signal cancelled
Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.8 or above	Libraries will be closed	Libraries will be closed	Libraries will resume service within 2 hours if the signal is cancelled or lowered to Signal No.3 or below 3 hours or more before the normal closing time as conditions allow. Libraries will remain closed if the signal is cancelled or lowered to Signal No.3 or below less than 3 hours before the normal closing time.
“Extreme Conditions”*	Libraries will be closed		Libraries will resume service within 2 hours if “extreme conditions” is cancelled 3 hours or more before the normal closing time as conditions allow. Libraries will remain closed if “extreme conditions” is cancelled less than 3 hours before the normal closing time.
Black Rainstorm Warning Signal	Libraries will be closed	Libraries will remain open	Libraries will resume service within 2 hours if the signal is cancelled 3 hours or more before the normal closing time as conditions allow. Libraries will remain closed if the signal is cancelled less than 3 hours before the normal closing time.

Arrangements for Mobile Libraries under Inclement Weather Conditions

	Tropical Cyclone / Rainstorm Warning Signal in force before Mobile Library Opening Hours	Tropical Cyclone / Rainstorm Warning Signal issued during Mobile Library Opening Hours	Tropical Cyclone / Rainstorm Warning Signal cancelled
Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.1 or 3 / Red Rainstorm Warning Signal	Subject to the weather and road conditions, mobile library service may be suspended.		Mobile library service will be resumed if conditions allow.
Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No.8 or above or Black Rainstorm Warning Signal	Mobile library service will be suspended.		Mobile library service will be resumed if the signal is cancelled or lowered to Signal No.3 or below before 10 a.m. and the conditions so allow. If the signal is cancelled or lowered to Signal No.3 or below at or after 10 a.m., mobile library service will remain suspended on that day.
	“Extreme Conditions” is in force before Mobile Library Opening Hours		“Extreme Conditions” is cancelled
“Extreme Conditions”*	Mobile library service will be suspended.		Mobile library service will be resumed if “extreme conditions” is cancelled before 10 a.m. and the conditions so allow. If “extreme conditions” is cancelled at or after 10 a.m., mobile library service will remain suspended on that day.

*	In the case of serious disruption of public transport services, extensive flooding, major landslides or large-scale power outage caused by a super typhoon, the Government will make an announcement of “extreme conditions”.