[quote=“Dragonbones”][quote=“Fox”]It’s all bullshit Taipei received 25% more than the average rainfall for Neihu in the period January to April this year. That’s 25% more than the average rainfall in one of the wettest suburbs in the city. It rained a lot…Taipei received 281mm of rain from Jan to April.
For Taipei in general it received 42% more than average.[/quote]
[quote=“Fox”]Just look at the statistics. The average rainfall for Taipei is 165mm from January through April we had a whopping 281mm.
42% more than average. I don’t need UFO’s to help me see what’s staring me in the face.[/quote]
I have no idea where your data is coming from, as you didn’t provide a link in those posts, but the numbers you cite don’t match what I’ve got from the CWB. Is this yet another case of Fox’s “creative writing”?
The CWB reports Taibei rainfall of 71.9, 68.0, 119.1, and 27.4 mm for each month so far, Jan - April, summing to 286.4 actual rainfall Jan-Apr 2011. The monthly Taibei averages through April are 83.2, 170.3, 180.4 and 177.8, summing to 611.7 average historical rainfall Jan-Apr, based on mean for data 1981-2010. acc. to the CWB.
Here is an image of the average historical data, monthly totals for Taibei:
Your 165mm avg Taibei rainfall for Jan-Apr is contradicted by and very far off from the CWB’s figure of 611.7mm. Could you please provide a link to your source?
If I’ve got these figures right, Taibei got only 47% of the normal rainfall for the first four months this year. The annual Taibei average is 2405.1mm. In 2010 we got 2278.3, which is again less than average.
Going forward, the forecast for the important plum rain season is bleak:
[quote=“The Taipei Times, Apr. 30”]Less precipitation than usual forecast in plum rain season
The nation’s water shortage problem may continue as the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday that the plum rain season is expected to arrive late and bring less rain than normal.
The plum rain season officially starts tomorrow [May 1] and normally lasts until the end of June.
The season was so named because the rain comes around the time when the plums south of China’s Yangtze River areas are about to ripen.
Rainfall in the plum rain season accounts for about 25 percent of the nation’s total annual rainfall.
…Cheng said the accumulated rainfall last month and this month [Mar-Apr] was only a quarter of the climate average.[/quote][/quote]
Thank you for doing such a public service, DB. Will it do any good with the “Droughters?” Doubtful.