A high-profile outdoor coffee festival in Hong Kong experienced significant operational setbacks and visitor frustration due to severe thunderstorms and heavy rain. The adverse weather heavily impacted vendors, leading to reported drops in business and dampening the overall atmosphere of the event.

Mud and rainy weather caused chaos and frustration at a high-profile open-air coffee festival in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District over the Easter weekend, as it was hit by squally thunderstorms and showers that flooded parts of the venue. The weather put a dampener on the four-day 2026 Coffee Hong Kong @WestK, which took place on the Great Lawn of the district’s Art Park, with one vendor reporting a 60 per cent drop in business. Some visitors to the festival were seen wearing shoe...