{"id":326211,"date":"2026-03-03T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326211\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:35:08","slug":"blood-moon-set-to-rise-over-hong-kong-but-clouds-rain-may-get-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326211\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blood moon\u2019 set to rise over Hong Kong but clouds, rain may get in the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP\u2019s journalism by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.scmp.com\/?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article&amp;campaign=rosetta_free_article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\">subscribing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong is set to witness a rare total lunar eclipse on Tuesday night, but the weather forecaster warns that thick clouds and possible rain may block the view.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Hong Kong Observatory also said temperatures were expected to drop gradually from 20 degrees Celsius (68 Fahrenheit) at noon on Tuesday to around 16 degrees in the evening.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The astronomical event will begin even before the moon rises above the horizon, according to the Observatory. By the time it appears at 6.22pm, it will already be partly immersed in Earth\u2019s darkest shadow.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAlthough the total lunar eclipse will start at 7.04pm and last until 8.03pm, there will be a lot of cloud cover tonight and a chance of rain,\u201d scientific officer Gabriel Fan Man-hei said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cSo whether people can see it depends on the actual cloud cover and how the rain develops tonight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The forecaster says the total lunar eclipse will start at 7.04pm. Photo: Dickson Lee\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b14305e3-1dd9-47ea-b0a5-7793d1155045_db5665a4.jpg\" title=\"The forecaster says the total lunar eclipse will start at 7.04pm. Photo: Dickson Lee\"\/>The forecaster says the total lunar eclipse will start at 7.04pm. Photo: Dickson Lee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[121146,151060,6075,240,26538,61,60,5833,6185,151061,3633,104084,82,3694,40342],"class_list":{"0":"post-326211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-blood-moon","9":"tag-cold-front","10":"tag-guangdong","11":"tag-hong-kong","12":"tag-hong-kong-observatory","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-lunar-eclipse","16":"tag-moon","17":"tag-northeast-monsoon","18":"tag-rain","19":"tag-red-light","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-total-lunar-eclipse","22":"tag-tuesday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}