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dulan drift — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 05:57:59 +0000

Yeah, starting to bear some resemblence to Fanapi/Morakot. Crossed the island and actually dipped south.

Big, ragged eye over central west coast and so an intense band of rain is circling Taiwan virtually unimpeded over water and feeding into the south west. Hopefully it will move on quicker than the other two storms did.

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dan — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 18:55:28 +0000

Nearly 3am Taiwan time, and part of Yilan County is getting 100mm/hour so far today, and nearly 800mm in the last 24 hours.

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dulan drift — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:27:31 +0000

Gusting up from north east. No real rain yet. Mountainous seas.

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dulan drift — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 05:18:00 +0000

Seems to be going north of here - it can be surprising how little effect it has when it's north - though will still be a big deal in Hualien and Ilan.

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dan — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:01:12 +0000

That's looking pretty interesting.

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dan — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:24:46 +0000

It looks like you're in for it. Might want to tie your hat on for this one.

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dulan drift — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:00:19 +0000

Avant le Deluge

Typhoons usually kick up beautiful skies just before they arrive.

Blew hard all day but then the wind dropped off around evening - like the first growls of a waking beast.

Dan, i will check on both your old places later and see if you would have died.

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dulan drift — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 06:03:20 +0000

It's still quite far off but with the sub-tropical ridge building in to the north, it looks like this typhoon might follow a pretty predictable path along the bottom of the ridge - straight to Taiwan. It's kind of the classic scenario. At the height of typhoon season.

The models have already aligned pretty much.

Below is the forecast chart for Firday evening.