As usual, HK goes from summer to winter overnight, missing Autumn entirely!
As well as going from super humidity to super dryness. I was "zapped" twice today with static electricity as I grabbed the door knob in my room. Still, I personally prefer the dryness over the humidity since it's relatively more bearable than the unrelenting humidity of summer.
And to be fair, the last month was pleasant. I didn't need to turn on the air con at all. More pleasant temperature don't usually last too long in HK. A month of fall is all we can ask I suppose.
Last edited by Coolboy; 03-12-2019 at 04:52 PM.
Super dry recently and yes, been zapped a few times too. Last time was opening the ice-cream fridge in Wellcome - might have been a second message attached to that!!
Actually in winter more wrinkles are visible due to the dry air and my hair loses its curl and volume. I kind like the humidity for anti-ageing and bouncy hair!
Coming originally from a place with colder winters, it bemused me that the HK Observatory would give out cold weather warnings when the temperature drops to 15 degrees or below. I used to think: "What, 15 degrees is cold?!" But then I have come to realized something. Buildings in HK do not account for change in seasons at all. No insulation whatsoever. If it's 5 degrees outside it is 5 degrees inside. In the summer, without air con, if it is 33 degrees outside, it is 33 degrees inside. No double glazing for windows. No central heating. No consideration of building materials to suit the climate.
Does it have to be this way? Can't buildings be better designed? Of course it can. Why hasn't it been done? Money. Developers don't want to spend extra for a winter that they consider too mild and short to warrant such spending. Maybe that is the case, but sometimes winter in HK can be surprisingly chilly, cold enough to open shelters for those too poor and elderly to brave the cold in their own poorly insulated homes. So winters in HK not cold enough? Hmmmm...not necessarily always the case.
So, what can be improved with HK housing, climate-wise?
Last edited by Coolboy; 05-12-2019 at 02:04 PM.
It may only be 15 degrees right now (warmer than the last few days) but the wind is absolutely chilling. Must be straight from Siberia. Even my local MTR station feels less warm than the past few days.