Summer breeze: the yo-yo red and green

(click on graph to enlarge)

This has been the pattern for at least the past two weeks: the yo-yo red and green.

Just before daybreak the temperature (red) drops to 28C or a tad below, and then it starts to climb so that just around the end of lunch it is hitting 33C. Meanwhile, the humidity (green) drops in inverse proportion. So although it is hot, it is not wretchedly hot + humid. The wind coming in from the west-southwest also helps keep it pleasant.

Hong Kong Observatory says July was the driest July they have records for. And that Total Bright Sunshine Duration was 16% above normal.

Cloud patrol: Tung Wan beach

Mister Bijou believes there was even more TBSD on a little island in the South China Sea. There have been some distant but mighty fine clouds to regard, but nary a thing above our heads but a blue sky and the invisible (by day) firmament. So it goes.