I want to take the 9 across from Kaohsiung to Taitung.
Last time I did this, I checked the weather for Kaohsiung and Taitung - both sunny. The 9 between them was fucked with rain.
How am I supposed to find this information?
I thought maybe Pingtung on the CWB website, but that goes all the way down to Kenting which doesn’t seem too accurate to group together.
download Rain Alarm app.
You may also refer to the precipitation forecast:
https://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/forecast/fcst/QPF.htm
https://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/forecast/fcst/QPF6.htm
I can’t imagine the predictions there will be any more accurate than other places around Taiwan which is correct only part of the time. They can’t even decide or agree if a typhoon is coming when it’s only a few hours away.
If no typhoon around, then expect a little rain at some point along the way.
Are you going surfing? If not, any phone weather app should do the trick.
Check the daren stations reading. Its the mountains, they vary a lot so prepare accordingly.
Well, Taipei today was gorgeous. And yesterday’s forecast was for rain all day today. Yesterday was gorgeous. And the prior day’s forecast was for rain all day.
If forecasters can’t get Taipei anywhere close to right, I wouldn’t have much hope for an accurate forecast in the (lower) mountains.
Rain Alarm Live Weather Radar on the App Store this one?
Thanks! The visual of the entire island is helpful.
Where can I find this? Googling daren station weather etc. didn’t turn anything up.
Yes.
works quite well.
My experience on 20 and 9 are that weather inland will only be and usually is worse than the coasts. If the weather reports for Fangshan and Daren are sunny and clear, then plan for at least light rain and fog in the middle. If it is sunny and clear the whole stretch then be pleasantly surprised.
Go to the CWB site.
Forecast > 368 townships > Taitung > Daren
Same procedure for any weather station. Not sure if this link will be direct but here it is anyway. If not just go through the links mentioned.
https://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/forecast/town368/towns/1001401.htm?type=Weather&time=7Day
To be fair. I would put the CWB website up at the top of quality public services in taiwan. Yes it varies but anyone who works in the mountains of taiwan knows very well how insanely extreme and unpredictable it is in there. Changes in minutes many times. They already usually have 3 hour updates from many stations. Quite high quality service actually. And in english as well…
