Weather

I often get asked "What is the weather like over there?"
Hmmm, well the best answer is that there is lots of it.

In an earlier blog I described how we had missed having weather in Abu Dhabi. Hong Kong has more than made up for it.
Today it is 35 degrees C and 85% humidity. "A bit like the space at the top of your coffee" (thanks Fred).

Blazing sunshine, mist on the mountains (just like the Japanese paintings you see), and the joyous singing of the cicadas.

For the previous 2 days we have had torrential rain. It is hard to describe the rain here compared to the UK. Perhaps if you think "Summer Storm" it will help.
It is hot and steamy without relief, then lightening comes down all around (we are in a dip surrounded by mountains), thunder echoes through the valley...


Next the sky opens and the seas drop in.

Instead of raining until it is empty for a couple of hours, it comes down in bucket loads all night, the next day, the next night and so on.
The rivers fill up and water shoots out of the banks at the roadside from the pressure of the mountain.
Exciting like a summer storm but for longer.

I wonder what will be next.