Yea, I noticed that 94W just seemed to vanish. This being my first winter on the east coast, it's hard for me to know what to make of the weather so far. In the Kao-ping region (SW Taiwan), October to May is normally extremely dry, with some slight rainfall. Pingtung regularly goes eight, even twelve weeks without a drop of rain the in winter, so I've been surprised by the amount of rain we've had here in Taitung so far. Is it normal? I'm guessing from the tone of your posting that it is not.