Monday, May 25, 2015
The monsoon season has officially begun. That's just another word for rain, rain, rain. I get that we needed all this water but I was hoping for some sunshine mixed in as well. It's been a week of rain and the ten-day forecast has no little sun icon peeking around the rain clouds. In the past 48 hours Kaohsiung has received over 650 mm of rain. It sounds especially impressive in millimeters but even 25 inches is pretty incredible. Today's forecast calls for "extremely heavy rain" through this evening. Yippee.
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Pop and I read about the monsoon tonight at dinner and the difference between your monsoon and India's (which started 4 days early in the Andaman Islands). They're predictiing the Indian monsoon to result in less than average rainfall (Good news for poor Bangladesh) but I couldn't find any reports for Taiwan. I suspect weather predictions for the monsoon are about as good as the ones for nor easters.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be a bit early to be predicting an entire season's worth of rain but I guess that's what weathermen do. I don't know what passes as normal here but it seems like we've had an awful lot of water in a pretty short amount of time.
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