Month Amount(ml), Rain Days, Monthly Ave, Yearly total, Comments

Jan: 35.5, 4, 30.5, 35.5

Feb: 106.5, 6, 40.2, 142, well above ave, follows big falls last feb, rain up from south

Mar: 12.5, 4, 40.5, 164.5, well below ave

Apr: 56, 6, 65.6, 220.5, evenly spaced, frequent night time rain

May 418.5, 18, 155.9, 639, (248ml on May 5-6, frequent night rain, well above ave)

June: 389, 7, 227.8, 1028 (well above, big mei falls jun 13-14, then 20-21 - both typ west of ppe)

July: 158.5 6, 270.5, 1186 well below ave, 1st half stinking hot with no rain. typh soulik - hot foehn wind 36C overnight - very little rain from that - eye nth taiwan).

August: 203.5, 10, 302(ave) 1390 (relatively mild aug, well spaced falls, good cloud, hardly needed to water for whole of aug)

September: 429, 10, 344.6 (ave), 1819

October: 23, 5, 182.3(ave), 1842 (way below ave, similar to last year)

November: 181, 7?, 79.2 (ave), 2023 (way above - similar to past few years - most of it in the first half of nov)

December: 48.5, 5 , 40.5 (ave), 2048

TOTAL: 2061.5, 1779.6 (ave)

NOTE: Ave figures taken from CWB site. 2012 figures from my own rain guage in Xing Chang.