Hong Kong Shuts Markets, Schools as Nesat Brings Gale-Force Winds to City – Bloomberg.
No wonder they call it Doomberg. It didn’t feel anything like that for us. Rainy and gustily windy, check. Not totally keen on leaving the house, check. Working from home, check. Simples.
The hilarious BBC package shows that it was a little squally by the ferry piers.
Making it all more easy, the Observatory has been warning of this for days, and pretty well everyone living here appears to know to check the signal on occasions like this, so doesn’t go to work.
Also the schools and buses are required to shut on T8 days, so it wasn’t a surprise to most.
The next storm along is called Nalgae and looks to be on a closer track to HK at present.