This, i think, is a pretty typical winter weather formation. A band of rain that soaks north eastern taiwan, but somehow misses here (though lan yu had rain today). Wonder if there is a channel of dry air that flows along the taidong coast that keeps it at bay. Pretty decent dbjf today as well.

Yesterday (12th) Zhiben had no dbf at all. In fact it was a beautiful, sunny, warm day, yet I understand here in Donghe it was blowing pretty hard. Last night in Donghe the dbf was howling, and we've been getting light rain most of the night and into this morning.

yeah, so much for my theory of it staying dry here - light rain in xc as well and actually looks pretty murky out to the north east - like it might settle in for the day.
interesting that there was no wind in chihben - were there white caps out to sea?

I don't remember seeing any whitecaps. I spent my lunch break sunbathing at the hot spring. Today it's wet in Zhiben, but drying out and calm. The sun is coming out as I type.

how are you going with that sunshine?

rain has settled in here and looks like it will continue until tonight at least. CWB is still sticking with their 30% though - assume they operate from a building without windows.

Ave rainfall for Dec is only 40-50 ml - this looks like putting us over the top already.

Simlar looking weather pattern to that which brought the rain last week - wonder if it will do so again. Last week the rain was preceeded by a similar strength dbjf to what we have today then started raining when that dropped off.

It seems to be following that pattern. It was an incredibly beautiful morning here, now the drizzle is settling in, with the dbf coming before it. The lawn chair did go down, and I was afraid the large pot of soup boiling on the outdoor cooker was going to blow over so put it on the protected porch.

In the end, that system didn't really move in like the last one - so it's hard to predict them.

This is the forecast chart for tomorrow, 12.22. Judging by the closeness of those isobars, it looks like we could be in for a decent dbj blast starting late Sat or Sun. Better get those chairs and cookpots packed away!

I see CWB have gone for 0% chance of rain for Taidong for tonight and tomorrow. Apart from the fact that there's plenty of stuff around on the radar, it's physically raining, so not sure how they arrived at that calculation.

They've been completely out to lunch the last couple of days. It's almost embarrassing.