The Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) today invited the public to vote online to select their top 10 mind-boggling weather and climate events in the past five years.

Through this activity, the HKO hopes to arouse people’s attention to significant weather and climate events in Hong Kong and around the world and enhance their understanding on climate change and its impact on human lives.

It noted that in recent years, extreme weather conditions such as intense cold surges, scorching high temperatures, super typhoons and torrential rain have affected Hong Kong and various parts of the world.

Meanwhile, melting ice in polar regions and rising sea levels have led to widespread concern on issues related to climate change across the world. Extreme weather events may cause severe damage to the ecological environment and even loss of life.

Participants can select five weather and climate events from the shortlist in each of the "Hong Kong" and "Worldwide" categories, that they consider the most significant or impactful or the most representative in the climate crisis.

They may have a chance to get an HKO souvenir.

Voting for the 2016-2020 Top 10 Mind-boggling Weather & Climate Events Selection will end on February 28.

The results will be announced in late March.