Two years ago, extreme rainfall inundated Hong Kong, turning roads into raging rapids, submerging cars and flooding malls, making it one of the city’s most costly weather events ever. When another round of record-breaking rains drenched the city last month, the damage and disruption were comparatively minimal.
“I was looking outside the window, seeing the rain coming down, and I was expecting way more impact than I saw afterward,” said Andreas Prein, a weather expert who was in town for a forum on extreme rainfall the same week of the deluge. Other overseas attendees also