They call it stormy Monday but Tuesday's just as bad...

Check out this water spout that formed just in front of Man Kok Tsui today.
According to the observatory they are quite common.
Never seen on before though.
You can just see the outline of the hills behind Kowloon to the left while Hong Kong Island is hidden in the clouds and behind the island.

And here is the radar image

And here is the rainfall map 

Typhoon Signal 10 and Eagles

A real bumpy night of wind and rain.   Trees down all over the shop in the morning.   The tide was surging too.   Luckily Man Kok Tsui seemed to weather the storm and the beach remained intact.   Last time the beach was trashed and covered in debris.   I suppose this time the winds must have been from another direction.   5 in the afternoon and not much happening but by midnight it was a very different place.

When Nuch and I took the boat round to Man Kok Tsui to check the house we counted six or seven kites soaring over the headlands.   As we looked closer we noticed the birds seemed to keep diving down onto a slightly larger bird with broader, wider and fingered wings and a distinctly rounded tail.  The bigger bird seems to be about 25% bigger than the kites.  The kites seemed to line up and take turns to mob the bird, occasionally locking talons and tumbling over and over before letting go.    Too far away to properly ID I guess it was a stranger to the shores that had been blown off course by the typhoon winds that had swept up from the Philippines.

Global warming – I Don’t Think So!

Last time I looked the temperature was down to 10 degrees.   This is the sub tropics not Manchester.   I firmly blame China for this as last week they claimed they had deliberately caused snow to fall on Beijing by firing some sort of chemicals into the clouds.  Snow in Beijing

“Weather forecast for tonight and tomorrow” Cloudy and cold overnight. The minimum temperature will be about 12 degrees in the urban areas, and 2 to 3 degrees lower over the New Territories.

Just what I wanted to hear.   Ah well, it is only supposed to last a few more days and then we are back to the warmth.