Ok, so today a landslide in Wulai area made a rock fall over a car. The passanger is dead.
“It’s like Usain Bolt doing a 4-second,100-metre run,” Professor Pitman said. “It’s completely off the charts.”
Apart from the extremities here that we know all too well about, 2016 has so far seen:
- Glaciers in Canada receding on a massive scale
- Artic ice back at record low levels
- Record rain in Australia
- 11 of the past 12 months setting monthly high temp records
- A conga line of Super Typhoons
Speaking of which, despite the typhoon likely to remain far away from Taiwan, the east coast could still get torrential rain from Haima as it heads to China.
Shaping up as the most powerful storm to hit China, possibly ever.
AC at the office is “broken”. Probably some burocrat in his cozy infernal office cannot bear turning the main AC on in late October/early November.
Meanwhile, Icon is stewing at 30 degrees and 100% humidity indoors…
Warm typhoon wind…looks like it could be a nice sunset right now.
Confirmed.
Today in Yilan we’ve had rain and sun alternating each other for the whole day. We’ve also had a huge rainbow in the afternoon.
Fairly strong wind as well.
Unfortunately our sunset sucked, the mountains and clouds covered almost any light and so just a small fraction of the clouds were painted with red/orange.
Serve with a tabouli salad and a good riesling
Icon, i guess your bosses never got the memo about this thing called ‘Global Warming’ and how December is the new October
This morning we had some of the heaviest rain i’ve ever seen - thanks God it only lasted 30 minutes
Hi Ma! has dropped a few notches crossing PPE but the structure is still intact - which is not normal. At one stage it looked like it was gonna pick the gap which would be incredibly rare, but that didn’t happen. I’m sure north PPE was smashed, but it’s still gonna be something out of the ordianry in China
Ironically first thing on my desk was a paper on global warming. I am told we are “saving energy”. Which is why they only turn the AC on a couple of hours…and turn it off at noon. Then turn it back by mid afternoon…off at 5. Back to stewing in our steamy juices…
The cherry on top: guy in charge of above mentioned paper says I can hand it in anytime before 9pm…
Only if the AC was on.
Yeah, palomita. you may want to back off on the whole “juices” deal, some of these pigfuckers ain’t seen a naked lady since comics cost a quarter.
Just sayin.
Crazily typhoon-like weather out there considering there’s no typhoon.
Weird ‘sunrise’ this morning. Overcast and raining heavily but with this soft yellow glow.
Speaking of which, a couple of nights ago i saw this round flash of yellow light rise up from behind the mountains - looked like a large explosion but there was no noise. Anyone see that or have any ideas what it might have been? Definitely wasn’t lightning or fireworks
Wondering about the impact in China with this typhoon - a menacing ‘oomph’ in the rain here and we’re no where near it. My guess is it’s gonna be a major disaster there.
Could have been a meteor strike, perhaps?
If you guys think this is hot, wait for next week.
Autumn tiger indeed!
I noticed most people at the office came dressed up very…lightly. One lady is wearing an ensemble I’d use to get to the pool or the beach. One Taiwanese guy is wearing a Hawaiian shirt - discrete colors though.
Yeah, that’s my best guess, too. I didn’t see it streaking through the sky but maybe i just caught the last bit. Still, never seen anything like it. Really looked like a huge explosion - i immediately started googling to see if the Chinese invasion had started!
The rain here is weird. Absolutely buckets down when it comes, but sometimes it’s less than a minute. If it’s like that but sustained in China then it’s gonna be a massive disaster there.
Song Shan and Neihu district last night felt like a typhoon. Heavy winds and short bursts of heavy rain.
Not sure what the weather this weekend will look like in Taipei. Hoping we don’t get cooped up inside for the long weekend.
I read that on Venus a single day is 243 earth days on account of it spinning so slowly (and clockwise - only Pluto and Venus spin clockwise - and getting slower) and one day is longer than a year (225 days)
Imagine having a bad hair day on Venus!
One theory is the that the atmosphere became so thick that it slowed down the rotation of the planet. If that was the case, i can definitely see that happening here. Yesterday the humidity hit 99% in Taidong. No rain but this incredible mugginess that you could cut with a knife.
I see there’s a rain warning out for most of the east coast. Although it’s pouring in Ilan right now (but really, when isn’t it?), it’s supposed to extend down the coast. CWB bumped Taidong’s POP from 30-70% and issued the warning. There are no building dark clouds here particularly, and can’t see anything obvious on the radar this far south, but it is bloody humid, so maybe…
I can confirm we’ve had some really have shower during the day. During one of those, I was riding my bicycle to buy some veggies ._. feelsbadman.
31 degrees indoors…It’s only 27 out there, BTW. 
Oh joy, they finally turned the thing on…midmorning, after we are all sweaty, no wonder this place sounds like an hospice…anyways enjoy it while it lasts, as they will turn it off at noon, because, you know, we must save money and we are on break anyways. Yeah right, as if anyone really left the office at noon.
How I picture whoever is in charge of AC in this bunker:
Hate to mention this Icon but just checked the Taipei temp forecast and you’ve got two 34s coming your way. With a ‘feels like’ of 38.
It’s the end of October and you’d expect the highs to start skewing below the monthly maximum average at this point, but 34 is a whopping 6.5 C above for October (27.5)
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I read that on Venus a single day is 243 earth days on account of it spinning so slowly (and clockwise - only Pluto and Venus spin clockwise - and getting slower) and one day is longer than a year (225 days)
Imagine having a bad hair day
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I was reading recently about a planet locked facing a star where it is super hot on one side and it rains molten iron on the cooler dark side of the planet… Can you imagine a typhoon made of molten metal
Today was very ‘men’.
Global warming is hitting us hard this year what with typhoons and the never ending heat. Even the evenings don’t cool down like they should!