albert_herbert_hawkins
Thunder and lightning here. Like a creeping artillery barrage. Raining like the end of the world as well. We used to get the tail end of Typhoons in Tokyo . But as a long term Japan dweller from Menston said ‘It’s just wind and rain, if you grew up in Yorkshire it’s nowt to right home about.”This though is a whole new order of wet. I got caught crossing the road from my cab to the supermarket the other week and was literally soaked through including my underwear. As I type we have proper Hollywood style storm rain interspersed with “the axe-man’s gonna get you” lightning . fairly spectacular and way beyond anything I’ve seen in Japan. It is however Just a Thunderstorm. We aren’t even at Typhoon level 1 yet.The Typhoon levels go 1, 3, 8., 9, 10.From what I can gather you’ll be curious to see an 8 until you experience one. Afterward you’ll be much less curious to see a 9. Personally I’m not in a hurry to see even a 3.
Placid
[quote=albert herbert hawkins]Thunder and lightning here. Like a creeping artillery barrage. Raining like the end of the world as well. We used to get the tail end of Typhoons in Tokyo . But as a long term Japan dweller from Menston said ‘It’s just wind and rain, if you grew up in Yorkshire it’s nowt to right home about.”This though is a whole new order of wet. I got caught crossing the road from my cab to the supermarket the other week and was literally soaked through including my underwear. As I type we have proper Hollywood style storm rain interspersed with [b]“the axe-man’s gonna get you” lightning[/b] . fairly spectacular and way beyond anything I’ve seen in Japan. It is however Just a Thunderstorm. We aren’t even at Typhoon level 1 yet.The Typhoon levels go 1, 3, 8., 9, 10.From what I can gather you’ll be curious to see an 8 until you experience one. Afterward you’ll be much less curious to see a 9. Personally I’m not in a hurry to see even a 3.[/quote]Quality. :D
flashback
Just burst in London: some geezer walking past the office in t-shirt, stupid 3/4 length shorts and flip-flops, proper doused. Good work God
albert_herbert_hawkins
I live in three quarter length shorts. It's not a fashion thing, it's just they have have to divert air traffic if I expose too much skin in bright sunlight. Too bastard hot here in the summer for trousers. Had a suit made in seven and half ounze wool, fine from the cab to the door, further than that and you're sweating like a rapist
flashback wroteJust burst in London: some geezer walking past the office in t-shirt, stupid 3/4 length shorts and flip-flops, proper doused. Good work God
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Linen
albert_herbert_hawkins
Too humid for linen, Linen just drags the water out of the air.What's interesting here is how the Chinese tailors have inherited a distrust of anything other than wool for suits. I was trying to get a cotton silk mix here. Zegna do a fabric called Silk Skin which is 50/50. Trouble is they don't do it here, not even in the Zegna shops. I asked in Zegna and they denied even manufacturing it! I had to show the the website on my phone. I know Scabal and Dormeuil make blended fabrics these days and even some that have no wool at all in. They don't appear to be moving much of it here though.
Djpekingman
albert herbert hawkins wroteToo humid for linen, Linen just drags the water out of the air.What's interesting here is how the Chinese tailors have inherited a distrust of anything other than wool for suits. I was trying to get a cotton silk mix here. Zegna do a fabric called Silk Skin which is 50/50. Trouble is they don't do it here, not even in the Zegna shops. I asked in Zegna and they denied even manufacturing it! I had to show the the website on my phone. I know Scabal and Dormeuil make blended fabrics these days and even some that have no wool at all in. They don't appear to be moving much of it here though.
Ooo ofucking hell. Isn't life a bitch!!! ;)
king_of_the_slums
Yeah, right laugh that. Sat on my balcony watching the storm dancing on the rooftops of Kowloon across the bay, then as it got closer it was like standing on the dance-floor at Ricky's in 1990, all that was missing was Mark and Farrah tweaking the smoke-machine and playing something on R&S records. Our lass was genuinely scared as she's epileptic and the constant barrage of flashes along with the Stella was getting her all shirty. Not me, I was intrigued and went out on the balcony to smoke a fag and enjoy the show. You could actually feel the electricity in the air with the hairs on your arms standing on end. Finished my fag and went back in the apartment, just in time, as our building got a direct hit, knocking two ornaments of the shelves in our front room and sending our lass over the edge with hysterics. And so began about an hour of constant thunder and lightning, incessant, boom, boom, boom, lovely and just when you though it had left and gone over the peak of Hong Kong, it came back down for more. It was the first time I've seen St. Elmo's fire, all along the wooden part of our balcony after the building got hit, glowing like a gas cooker it was, fucking madness. We lost an ashtray, the fucker was split right down the middle, a perfect break. Maybe it's a sign to quit smoking?
smiley
Albert get yourself one of these - tache optional
Mitaman
albert herbert hawkins wroteToo humid for linen, Linen just drags the water out of the air.What's interesting here is how the Chinese tailors have inherited a distrust of anything other than wool for suits. I was trying to get a cotton silk mix here. Zegna do a fabric called Silk Skin which is 50/50. Trouble is they don't do it here, not even in the Zegna shops. I asked in Zegna and they denied even manufacturing it! I had to show the the website on my phone. I know Scabal and Dormeuil make blended fabrics these days and even some that have no wool at all in. They don't appear to be moving much of it here though.
Very funny.I bought a 'tropical weight' chalk stripe a few years back from M&S in Central. First wearing in Tokyo in August, the fucking thing absorbed all the humidity and was hanging off me like a wet teacloth. Right waste of 200 quid.Get yoursen a pair of speedos and walk around mid-levels looking cool..yet practical.
albert_herbert_hawkins
M&S are up to the minute. They were doing a cotton silk mix this summer for a couple of hundred sterling. Saw it in that very branch in central. I don't often buy off the peg but at that price it was to good to pass up. Trouble is everybody else must have thought the same, I went back a week later and they sold out. :(
king_of_the_slums
ThursdayChance of a Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. High: 33 °C . Wind WSW 10 km/h . 40% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 2.96 mm). Heat Index: 39 °C . Thursday NightChance of a Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. Low: 27 °C . Wind East 3 km/h . 40% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 7.27 mm). FridayChance of a Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. High: 33 °C . Wind WNW 18 km/h . 30% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 4.05 mm). Heat Index: 40 °C . Friday NightChance of a Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. Low: 27 °C . Wind WSW 10 km/h . 30% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 2.47 mm). SaturdayChance of a Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. High: 32 °C . Wind West 14 km/h . 40% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 5.28 mm). Heat Index: 36 °C . Saturday NightChance of a Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. Low: 27 °C . Wind SW 10 km/h . 30% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 3.89 mm). SundayChance of a Thunderstorm. Partly Cloudy. High: 32 °C . Wind SW 14 km/h . 30% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 1.62 mm). Heat Index: 35 °C . Sunday NightChance of a Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. Low: 27 °C . Wind South 18 km/h . 40% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 9.70 mm). MondayChance of a Thunderstorm. Partly Cloudy. High: 32 °C . Wind SSW 25 km/h . 40% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 7.07 mm). Heat Index: 36 °C . Monday NightChance of a Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. Low: 27 °C . Wind SSE 28 km/h . 30% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 3.00 mm). TuesdayChance of a Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. High: 32 °C . Wind WSW 10 km/h . 30% chance of precipitation (water equivalent of 1.42 mm). Heat Index: 36 °C .Fack me :o
albert_herbert_hawkins
:oFuck um pigeons! We fly next Thursday. I don't much fancy taking off in owt like last night.
king_of_the_slums
Fuck it, 55 dollar martinis at the Sheraton are calling :D
albert_herbert_hawkins
Here it comes again. Quick KOS, get a sedative down your lass.
gorefidel
Brains the size of planets and you don't check the local weather patterns before you move there :D ....
http://gohongkong.about.com/od/travelplanner/ss/weatherbyseason_5.htmSummer Weather in Hong KongHong Kong weather in summer (June - August) can seem like swimming through soup. The sun beats down, the air is laced with humidity and shirts become tissues to stop sweat. Locals, walking around in the heat during lunchtimes look like they have just completed a marathon. Added to this misery is the constant threat of summer showers, thunderstorms and Hong Kong typhoons. Summer weather in Hong Kong is best avoided, unless absolutely necessary.ClothesT-Shirts and shorts; although those who easily burn in the sun may want to consider long sleeves, and if not, very high factor sun cream. Raincoats are useless, as the sun will melt you and it like a candle, pick up an umbrella in town.Facts and FiguresThe temperature averages at 28 for much of the summer and even at night doesn't drop significantly. Rainfall can be extremely erratic, but on average you can expect 80-100mm
Mitaman
albert herbert hawkins wroteM&S are up to the minute. They were doing a cotton silk mix this summer for a couple of hundred sterling. Saw it in that very branch in central. I don't often buy off the peg but at that price it was to good to pass up. Trouble is everybody else must have thought the same, I went back a week later and they sold out. :(
Funnily enough it was a Paul Smith suit, as they made them for M&S a few years ago. Hence the reason I never go into PS as I think it is over-priced crap. On the subject of rain we got typhoon 9 on Monday and it was basically like a dank day in Doncaster, nowt to fret over. The J media were all over it, all you needed was a pair of wellies, a Kagool , job bloody sorted.
Djpekingman
Mitaman wrotealbert herbert hawkins wroteM&S are up to the minute. They were doing a cotton silk mix this summer for a couple of hundred sterling. Saw it in that very branch in central. I don't often buy off the peg but at that price it was to good to pass up. Trouble is everybody else must have thought the same, I went back a week later and they sold out. :(
Funnily enough it was a Paul Smith suit, as they made them for M&S a few years ago. Hence the reason I never go into PS as I think it is over-priced crap.
On the subject of rain we got typhoon 9 on Monday and it was basically like a dank day in Doncaster, nowt to fret over. The J media were all over it, all you needed was a pair of wellies, a Kagool , job bloody sorted.
Why is it all these exotic foreign places call their shitty weather exotic names, typhoons, hurricanes, sciroccos etc whereas in the UK you just have fucking wind and rain and snow and shit?
king_of_the_slums
It's us Brits that put the n on the end - it's actually pronounced typhoo like the the brand of tea. Britain, has weather?
Ray_Hankin's_shorts
Weather is weather.The thing that shit me most in Japan was being woken up by jiggling glasses at 0300 as the 11th floor bedroom I was in swayed back and forth during one of the weekly 'tremors'.I was about 150miles north of Tokyo and the guys there are convinced that sooner or later they'll be waving goodbye to their capital city - either it being flattened or simply breaking away from the mainland!Strangely I do miss being there though - best place I've been by a long way and I've done quite a bit of travel on business and pleasure.