Always keep in mind that these forecasts are almost always wrong.
Then why do I keep dreaming of long white beards, animal collection and boat-building?
This is nearly as bad as that one spring in 95 where it rained for 40 some-odd days straight.
The forecast calls for pissing rain…Hold on, I’ll look out the door from my office…
Looks pretty damn accurate to me… 
I hate this fucking weather :fume:
I was working in Yuanlin in those days and commuted from Taichung by motorcycle. I still have nightmares about it.
You mean the “Weather Underground” forecasts? Pretty miserably inaccurate much of the time. At this very moment, it says 77 F / 25 C and “partly cloudy” in Taipei. That means the sun is peeking out. My ass. Of course when you click on the link, you’ll often see that it says “Please Note: This station is not reporting” for hours on end.
Relatively more accurate - and far more depressing - is the Central Weather Bureau:
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V5/
Clicking on Taipei, you get thunderstorm icons for the next three days, rain icons for the four following that - and of course rain all day today…
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V5/forecast/taiwan/36_01_data.htm
I just spent 3 days in Haulien -Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday- where your “accurate” forecaster called for “thunderstorms” each day. Not one crack of thunder anywhere any day. I have been to the east coast 12 times in my 4 years in Taiwan -each trip in the summer- and every single time, I diliberated on embarking because Taiwan’s weather forecasters -along with Yahoo’s, have always called for heavy rain. In fact, in 12 times out there, totally 40 days minimally, I have NEVER experienced the horrid weather they called for.
This thread is not to defame the weather bureau or whoever, but to give some hope to those who are trying to plan trips to Taiwan’s east coast. Maybe I should have made that clear in the beginning. If one checks the weahter for Haulien and Taitung on the weekends during the summer, there will almost always be calls for Thundershowers. However, according to my experience, it doesn’t usually play out like that.
Go do your thing in Taiwan’s East regardless of Taiwan’s weather forecasts.
Sorry guys - I should have told you - I cleaned my motorcycle yesterday.
I just look at the radar, isobars and sea temps and make my own mind up about the weather. Mine predictions are usually way better than anything the CWB can throw out.
I can’t believe they cancelled the concert in Longtan so early. I remember when I used to go golfing, at first I’d look up and it looked like it was going to rain so I wouldn’t go and then it would turn out nice. So finally I just started going no matter what and it either cleared up or it didn’t, but mostly I got to play.
Note that the average citizen is unlikely to complain if the weather is better than forecast…
That meadow would be a swamp right now…With the downpour we got in the last two hours alone, the venue would take a week to dry out, and that’s assuming bright sunshine from tomorrow onward.
I just was surfing around the CWB website, and saw that Alishan has received 670mm of rain since 12am…Insane.
Dangermouse, it wasn’t you washing your bike…It was me buying a new one 
Sad to say it’s miserable here in HK too. Bucketing down.
HK
post deleted - found this thread on the plum rains: [url]Starting tomorrow, it will rain for a month
I was working in Yuanlin in those days and commuted from Taichung by motorcycle. I still have nightmares about it.[/quote]
I had an Austin Montego…Which means I commuted by motorcycle for most of the duration as well 
And we were hit straight on by a supertyphoon. The eye of which passed over Taipei city, the same year.