Weather pr0n

A seriously cold front began to surge across a little island in the South China Sea at 4pm this afternoon. The temperature dropped as fast as the Hang Seng Index on a really bad day. And what had been balmy 10km/hr winds turned into hang-on-to-your-hat, leaf-stripping 60km/hr gales.

Awesome!

It's OK in the cold, if you are warm

Season's (indoor) fashion: shorts off, jeans on. Sweat shirt on top of the T-shirt. Beanie hat on head. Why, so? Winter has finally arrived. Or is it merely the first taste of winter?

For sure, the last couple of days have been rainy and cold, but that is changing as an intense northeast monsoon brings further cold . . . but dry. Which is all to the good . . . for Mister Bijou says, "better cold and dry, than cold and wet".

Oh, look . . . according to Hong Kong Observatory, humidity on a little island in the South China Sea has plummeted over the past 24 hours from 90 percent to 11 percent :

(click on graph to enlarge)

Time to dig out the lip salve!