Just in case you weren’t aware of how nasty the weather has been the last few days – perhaps you live and work in a mall or are a duck – we have photographic evidence.
A Hong Kong resident spotted a waterspout (basically a mini tornado-looking thing over water) near Kau Yi Chau, an uninhabited island just west of Victoria Harbour, at around 8am yesterday morning.
An active southwesterly airstream that brought heavy rain and thunderstorms to Hong Kong yesterday is said to be to blamed/thanked for the phenomenon.
According to radar data from the Hong Kong Observatory, we were experiencing particularly heavy rain at the time. You don’t say?
From midnight on Tuesday to 4pm yesterday, more than 300mm of rain fell over the western part of Hong Kong Island alone, with downpours heading slowing northwards throughout the afternoon.
And that knob of an airstream is expected to persist over the next few days, FYI.
Waterspouts, which appear as funnel-shaped clouds above water, are most common during Hong Kong’s rainy season between May and October. Since 1959, 33 have been spotted in the territory.
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