A Drought -- you've got to be friggin' kidding me

[yuli]

@Fox

That is just the 40% more than average days with rain. You can look that up at the CWB.

I couldn’t care less about that data - it is of no use to me, neither in this discussion nor in general.

You also avoid the fact that the Koppen-Gieger weather index used to define climate says that high rainfall is more than 1750 to 2000mm annually.

And you avoid the fact that Mars is smaller than Earth - but no sweat, neither the Koppen-Geiger Index nor the size of Mars have anything to do with my challenge to your assertion.

How do you explain the 3654mm, 2156mm, 2846 mm and 2000mm in Alshan, Kauhsiung, Pingtung and Taitung.

What are you talking about: Annual average rainfall? Last year’s rainfall? Rainfall in the last 12 months? Rainfall in any other time period?

What is it with all these places in the south that are suffering from drought having more than high-rainfall on a standard index? Please explain. Explain it.

What is it? I am sorry i don’t understand your question, My question is: has there been enough rainfall in the south to fill the reservoirs?

How do you explain Pingtung in the heart of the drought having 105mm so far this year when to this time in the previous three years it had only had 66mm, 85mm, and 48mm.

I don’t explain anything, since i can’t find any of the data you are showing here - would you mind telling me where you found them?

These are the facts that you run from

I am not running from anything. I am challenging your assertion that Taiwan has had enough rainfall recently to fill the reservoirs and that the low water levels in the reservoirs are therefore entirely due water mismanagement.

And since i don’t know what the facts are , i make use of pages like this to inform myself:
focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_ … 1104280025
… and pages like this:
cwb.gov.tw/V6e/statistics/monthlyData/mD.php - from here i have extracted, for example, the following data for the most recent 6 months:

[quote]Rainfall in mm
Loc Ttun Kaoh Tnan Alis Tchn Dans Taip
2010:
Nov 47.7 13.0 54.0 87.8 20.7 89.5 127.3
Dec 12.6 11.5 14.5 64.9 27.4 100.1 63.4
sub 60.3 24.5 68.5 152.7 48.1 189.6 190.7
2011:
Jan 14.9 7.7 6.7 133.8 35.4 108.6 71.9
Feb 16.6 3.5 7.7 62.1 27.6 104.1 68.0
Mar 11.1 8.0 4.7 93.8 33.2 118.2 119.1
Apr 61.6 29.5 26.0 28.7 5.1 51.6 27.4
sub 104.2 48.7 45.1 318.4 101.3 382.5 286.4
6 month period:
tot 164.5 73.2 113.6 471.1 149.4 572.1 477.1[/quote]
(I hope i haven’t made any errors in transferring data and calculating totals - if i have, please tell me and i’ll fix them)
Now, even these numbers don’t tell me enough yet - so i will consider information like this:
chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/nati … t-rain.htm
(I’ve seen more information but did not make a record of the URLs, except for the pages listed here: A drought? No kidding

So i’ve done most of your homework. So what now?

But, actually, i realize this thread is not about facts (let alone resembling a scientific approach) but an exercise in “venting”,
so i don’t mind it at all if you don’t follow the road i’ve pointed out here.