Rainfall 2014

January (ave 30.5)
Jan 11: 7mm
Jan12: 2mm
Jan 29: 0.5

Total: 9.5
Comments: lowest recorded monthly rainfall

Feb (ave 40.2)
Feb 2: 9mm
Feb 3: 2mm
Feb 6: 5mm
Feb 10-14: 12.5
Feb 17: 3mm (preceding coldfront)
Feb 19: 8.5 cold front)
Feb 23: 12 (heavier rain, unexpected, no cold front)
Feb 27: 1
Feb 28: 20 (preceded by light southerly - lingering fronts – similar to mei yu front)
Total Feb: 73mm
Comments: well spaced rain for the main growing season - haven't watered garden all month. Follows pattern of above ave Feb rainfall over last few years. Though this has been followed by below ave Mar - see what happens this year.
(running total for 2014: 82.5 mm)

March (ave: 40.5)
March 19-20: 2mm (which was good going seeing how CWB had us rated at 0%. Humid, southerly, pre big dbjf)
Mar 26-7: 19.5mm (very humid, calm, light se, outflow from TS that had passed thru ppe)
Mar27-28: 8.5mm
Mar28-29: 3.5mm
March 31: 15.5mm (front approach from west)

March Total: 49 mm

Comments: Only 2mm up to 25th and looked like a record dry month but then a series of fronts, cold and stationary, brought several days of rain and boosted the total to just over ave. CWB consistently missing each event.

Running Total for 2014: 131.5mm

April (ave: 65.6)
April 1: 4.5 (stationary or reforming front from due west)
April 2: 5mm (as above)
April 3-10:7mm (series of light falls)
April 12: 11mm (remnants from TS?)
April 21: 0.5mm
April 23: 1mm (takes a lot of misty drizzle to get 1mm)
April 26: 4.5mm (cold front)
April 28: 1mm
April Total: 35.5 (30mm below ave - 2 week dry patch)
Running Total for 2014: 167mm

May (ave 155mm)

May 2-3: 32.5 (stream of wet weather sliding up from Hainan - east coast only)
May 4-5: 5mm (as above)
May 8-9: 18mm (mei yu with ne wind)
May 16: 5mm (thick mist - barely 100m visibility)
May 19: 3.5mm (slight spill over from big west coast mei yu)
May 20: 6.5mm (as above)
May 21: 1.5mm (as above)
May 28-29: 12mm (isolated micro-climate showers)

Total May: 84mm (well below ave - west coast mei yu that never really crossed the ranges and no low pressures to south)
Running total for 2014: 251mm

June (ave 228mm)

June 3: 11mm (more southerly mei yu)
June 6: 6mm (as above)
June 7: 1.5mm
June 8: 60mm (southerly front tilting anti-clockwise)
June 9: 8mm (as above - 'torrential' warning issued but didn't eventuate due to typhoon forming in front and dragging rain away)
June 10-11: 30.5mm (huge southern front still slightly east of us)
June 14-15: 115.5mm (2nd typ formed in southern front - this one to sw of tw)

Total June: 226 (right on ave - but all rain came in first half of june from tilted mei yu front in commbination with typh forming in front)
(running total 477mm)

July (ave 270.5)

July 5: 1mm
July 14: 32mm (typ in ppe but came across coastal range from west-night-east coast-unexpected)
July 17-18: 15mm (typ remnants from hainan)
July 24-25: 235mm (typ - went in around Cheng Gong)

July Total: 283 (abt ave - brutal patch of hot, dry weather from mid june-mid july)
(running total for 2014: 760mm)

August (ave 302mm)
Aug 6: 1.5
Aug 11: 88mm (persistent system been dumping 200-300 daily falls on sw coast for past 5 days - expanded to affect us last night - doesn't appear to be typ related-actually was shown as low belatedly - formed just off our coast)
Aug 16: 1mm
Aug 18: 26mm (TD passed through north ppe)
Aug 21: 71mm - (started just on nightfall - build up to ne during day - no obvious low - strong thunder and lightning - CWB had Taidong at 0% pop!)

Aug total: 187.5mm (well below ave - very little typhoon activity)
(running total for 2014: 947mm)

September (ave 345)
Sep 8: 4.5mm (TS to ne and another west of ppe)
Sep 13-16: 17.5mm (light falls associated with typ to south - weak poleward outflow)
Sep 21-22: 252mm (typhoon fung wong - southerly approach - 124 in main burst - only 3mm after eye)
Sep 27: 1.5mm

Total Sep: 275. (below ave and only 2 rain events above 5mm)
(running total for 2014: 1222mm)

October (ave 182.3mm)
Oct11: 0.5mm
Oct 25: 0.5mm
Oct 27: 0.5mm

Total Oct: 1.5mm (new world record low! marginally more in other parts of taidong, but it's been a 6 week dry run. no typ to south, and very little activity generally)
(running total 2014: 1223mm)

November (ave: 79.2mm)
Nov 12-13: 5mm (drizzle from north - first rain in over 7 weeks)
Nov 14-15: 9mm (low to the south)
Nov 27-29: 22mm (TS to south west- outflow)
Nov 30: 2mm (preceeding cold front - light south wind day before)

Total Nov: 38mm (late falls added some respectability but still less than half the ave - dearth of typhoons passing to the south)

December
Dec 1: 1mm
Dec 3-4: 3mm
Dec 19: 3mm (cold front to north - low in ppe)
Dec 24-5: 17.5mm (same)