by dulan drift, Thursday, April 05, 2012, 19:14 (4613 days ago)
Looks pretty serious. Is that a mei yu thing do you think?
system up the strait
by dan, Friday, April 06, 2012, 07:29 (4613 days ago)@ dulan drift
It sure looks like a mei yu situation to me. When we were living in Pingtung, these fronts would just sit over us for sometimes weeks at a time.
Things are kicking up here this morning, though a lot of activity seems to be sitting off the east coast, stationary.
system up the strait
by dulan drift, Friday, April 06, 2012, 11:29 (4612 days ago)@ dan
Comparing the radar with the actual rainfall map, you'd wonder how that could even be possible. The system seems to be travelling from west to east but somehow the whole west side of the island has remained virtually dry. The usual thing is that the central range and the coastal range will take most of the moisture out of such a system before it reaches us, but on this occasion the east coast seems to be the only place that is getting rain. There must be some other factor at play.