Here we go. Dong-gang in Pingdong has experienced 160mm in the last hour! That's nearly as high as it gets as an hourly rate - nowhere can sustain that intensity for long without landslides.

Still pouring on the east coast (south & north, but not mid), but now Kaohsiung & Pingdong are coming into play as the eye makes landfall.

As you say, it did duck east just before it crept ashore - it was forecast to go to Tainan but seems to have crossed right over Kaohsiung city after all.

Be interesting to see where the exit wound ends up being. Erratic behaviour traversing the mountains is not uncommon.

The stairway to Kaohsiung ...
We won't see that track too many times - perfectly picked the gap between Taiwan & PPE then comes up through southern Taiwan - most of it at snail's pace.

There's always a blocking high involved in these stalling situations.