While we’re sure quite a few Coconauts got caught in yesterday’s yellow and amber rainstorms, we can think of at least one good thing that’s come out of the humidity and pouring rain: breathtakingly beautiful clouds, that’s what!
Yesterday morning, Kai Yuen Leung shared a photo he’d taken on his phone of a rolling cloud formation cascading over Kowloon’s peaks on Facebook. The snap has since garnered over 16,000 reactions, with multiple people commenting that the sight looked almost surreal.
“It’s the first time I’ve ever seen such an astounding landscape in Hong Kong, amazing. Thanks for sharing,” one netizen said. “The most beautiful part is Lion [Rock] poking out, it almost looks like a tsunami,” another marvelled.
Tsoi Tze-shun, a scientific officer at the Hong Kong Observatory, told Sky Post that Leung had witnessed a rare formation that only occurs over mountains during spring- and summertime, when the wind and temperature conditions are just right.
And while Leung’s photograph is lovely, another local photographer, Henry Wong, hit the jackpot when he managed to film the wave-like clouds rolling over the top of Lantau Peak.
Uploaded just one hour ago, Wong’s video shows the fluffy, white clouds cresting over the top of Fung Shan and Wong Shan, the mountains that make up Lantau Peak. How sublime! We’re filing this under “things to watch when life is just too much”.
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