Something I do over here, every few days, is call up the 10-day weather report for Hong Kong from the Web site weather.com

Just for laughs.

Since we arrived, the weather has not changed. To wit: highs of 86 or 87, but it feels hotter because the humidity is going to be about 70 percent. With overnight lows in the mid-70s. Every day. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

The only variable? Whether the chance of rain is slim or decent. There always is a chance of rain.

Anyway, it’s now November, allegedly one of the “nice” months of the year here, for weather …

And I just looked at the 10-day, and this is what I see.

85, 83, 82, 84, 84, 86, 84, 81, 80 and (drum roll, please) a high of 79 (!) on Nov. 1o. If we all live that long.

Also, the low that night is supposed to be (brrr) 58. Man, no wonder they have up displays of winter clothes at the malls.

By now, I have lost the capacity to believe it ever will be anything but hot and sticky here. It was the same way in Beijing, so I’ve just decided that if I hear someone speaking a Chinese language … I’m probably sweating bullets.

And it’s probably just as well to think of Hong Kong in that way, because that is exactly how it is, nine months of the year. Except a bit worse than October was.

July, August, September, a few degrees hotter and quite a bit wetter, I hear. As a colleague said the other day, someone from the Bay Area, “It definitely is weird to walk outside and it’s 93 — and pouring rain.”

Anyway, it’s just a matter of a few degrees … and if I got through October, it seems to me the chances are I could survive a summer here. Everyone just runs from one air-conditioned oasis to another, and I learned how to do that while living in the Inland Empire.

It’s semi-dry, this time of year, at least. Last night’s 2 a.m. cloudburst notwithstanding.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to that “79” day allegedly in our future. Though we all know that forecasts for 10 days out are usually about as accurate as throwing darts at a board while wearing a blindfold.

Especially if the previous five weeks have been 35 days of the same thing.