Summer Rain

Even got a Red Rainstorm Warning this noon time.

Maybe Hong Kong will fill its reservoirs this year for the dry season... and it's just started to rain here again.

The Red Rain warning went up in time for Number One Daughter to not have to go to school.

You know you have Hong Kong kids when they turn on the TV and go "Yay! Red Rain! No School!"

Meanwhile, I had to go up the wilds of Kowloon this afternoon and was treated to blazing sunshine and about 30+ degree heat. Lovely.

Honestly - I think that is a fabulous picture.

I was saying to a friend tonight that in the ten years I have been here I do not ever recall so many days of consecutive downpours. I live half way up a hill and it felt like I was sliding down a waterfall going down to King's Road to get the MTR.

Phil, you live up the same hill I do. It's shorts and sandals just to get to the MTR or the bus. (You can change in the office.)

I remember 1997, though, when it rained like this for one whole month. A friend of mine worked for a Geo-tech consultant and he was never so busy in his life. We had one whole metre of rain in one month, and something like 300 landslips. That was July 1997, the first month of Chinese Rule. I remember, I couldn't even see out the window for the first few days!

1994 had a month - June or July - when it rained every day but one.

Interesting that your picture immediately reminded me of that Peter Gabriel album cover. His first Album - I don't think it actually had a title - Amazon calls it "Car". Then you used the phrase "Red Rain".

That album cover has a certain similarity to my picture all right, although I think that the cover to UP is a better match in some ways.

As for the Red Rain, that wasn't intentional - it's just something Roxanne says.

I know you've been here in the summertime, but you probably never noticed the constant weather warnings on the TV. The Rainstorm Warnings (and all the other warnings too) are shown on the TV when they're in effect like so:

Heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall generally over Hong Kong, exceeding 30 millimetres in an hour, and is likely to continue.

Heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall generally over Hong Kong, exceeding 50 millimetres in an hour, and is likely to continue.

Very heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall generally over Hong Kong, exceeding 70 millimetres in an hour, and is likely to continue.

So you can see where a kid would see that and call it "Red Rain". do they show earthquake warnings on the TV in California?