Heavy and torrential rain is forecast for north and east Taiwan today due to strengthening northeasterly winds and the peripheral effects of Tropical Storm Nalgae, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.
In particular, people near Keelung on the north coast, Yilan County, and mountainous areas in Taipei and New Taipei City can expect extremely heavy rain, the bureau said.
Last night, a combination of strengthening northeasterly winds and airflow from Tropical Storm Nalgae also brought rain to regions including the mountainous parts of central Taiwan and the Hengchun Peninsula in the south, it said.
The bureau defines extremely heavy rain as accumulated rainfall of 200mm or more within 24 hours, while torrential rain refers to rainfall of 350mm or more and extremely torrential rain is rainfall of 500mm or more.
As of 8am yesterday, Nalgae was about 700km south-southwest of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan’s southernmost point, and was moving west across the Philippines toward the South China Sea at 11kph, bureau data showed.
Former bureau weather forecast center director Daniel Wu (吳德榮) said current weather patterns would remain in place through Wednesday.
From Thursday to Saturday, northern and eastern regions would continue to experience scattered and heavy rain showers, while central and southern Taiwan would have cloudy to sunny skies, with a chance of sporadic rain, said Wu, who is an adjunct associate professor of atmospheric sciences at National Central University.
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