My blogspace has recently had two visitors from the Arab world. One from UAE and another from Egypt. Thank you for visiting this rural place of the Cyberspace!
When I located UAE and Egypt on the map, I found the latitudes of both countries are almost the same as that of Hong Kong. Somewhere above 20 deg. N. But it was 9 degrees centigrade in Hong Kong this morning and the HK Observatory issued a warning of cold weather!
Well, it is nothing compared to the "cold weather" in Minnesota, but you can die sleeping on the street after drinking. Actually, dozens of people died of cold in HK every winter before the handover of the city's sovereignty from the UK to China in 1997. But the winter death toll declined dramatically after the PRC took over this former British colony. The HK government has done quite a good job in protecting of the homeless and senior citizens from cold weather.
By the way, it is around 20 degrees centigrade both in Cairo, Egypt and Dubai, UAE. It should be quite pleasant. It was actually quite surprising to me, because I'd imagined the weather would be always hellishly hot over there...
But it IS cold anyway....
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