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Duvet days Shanghai style
After a premature winter beginning last week, Shanghai is enjoying sunny days with temperatures of up to 17 degrees. And that means it’s a good time to make hay, or rather, wash bed covers, while the...
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Blue sky thinking
Spring has well and truly sprung here in New York City. We have been enjoying unseasonably nice weather for the past couple of weeks, and now that the clocks have been turned forwards (except for the...
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Stormy Weather – be careful what you wish for
New York is on ‘tornado watch.’ As I type, rain is lashing against the little windows of my flat, and I am huddled in front of my laptop, reduced to eating leftovers and refreshing weather.com rather...
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Stormy Weather – NYC braces for Hurricane Sandy
As I type, New York is in the midst of hurricane panic. Sandy has not yet reached these low-lying, densely packed shores, but the city is already shutting down in preparation for the ‘Frankenstorm.’...
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Put a spring in my step, New York City
Sack the groundhog, because spring has not sprung in New York City. For weeks I have been hoping for some balmy weather. I even went so far as to send my snow boots and thick coat back to the UK. I...
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My first taste of crazy Canadian weather
I previously thought that Canadians had the dexterity of mountain goats when it came to walking on ice. Temperatures sink to well below freezing every winter, and many of them welcome this by plunging...
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Five signs that winter is coming to Qatar
I measure Qatar’s changing seasons by the temperature of our bath water. Specifically, I know that when the water coming out of the cold tap is cool enough to bath a baby (rather than hot enough to...
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My Chinese ice festival plan got an icy reaction
Every year, the northerly Chinese industrial town of Harbin holds an ice and snow sculpture fiesta in early January. For a month, the city’s open spaces are given over to unusually large sculptures of...
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Dear Britain: if you can’t fry prawns on a manhole cover, it’s not a heatwave
Image c/o shanghaiist.com To be a true Asian expat, you must allow two meteorological realities to co-exist at the same time. One that characterises UK weather as habitually dramatic, climatically...
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