On the CWB radar map there is a red line encircling Taiwan, centred on where the earthquake was earlier. I can’t post the image, but here’s the link: cwb.gov.tw/V4e/weather/radar … OS.cgm.gif
Guess it will be updated at 7pm. Or perhaps 6:30. Oops. Too late.
What d’you reckon it is?
Since it’s on a radar image of precipitable water in the atmosphere, and it’s a perfect circle about 2 degrees in diameter… I think it’s the limit of the area over which the satellite is looking straight down. IOW, noise or artifacts of some sort.
I asked the chief of the CWB by email. We’ll see what he says.
I think its some sort of an infection.
Ashes to ashes, all fall down!
It’s predicted. Rev. 4:27
OOC
What’s the Isle of Wight got to do with it?
What’s the Isle of Wight got to do with it?[/quote]You mean the Isle of Wight isn’t a red colored ring around Taiwan? Well, there goes the theory about Taiwan being the center of the universe then… :s 
From the horses mouth:
Yah, but the ocean doesn’t have a topographical feature like a perfect circle around Taiwan, unless there happened to be a huge and uninterrupted tidal wave rushing away from us.
I think someone would have noticed that 
The radar station isn’t over the ocean. It is in Tainan where there is a good deal of topography last time I visited.
Up to you, if the CWB chief isn’t good enough for you then the only thing I can leave you to reflect on is the Tolstoy quote from War and Peace, I posted in the Favorite Quotes thread.
You can do the research yourself.
Sorry. We were just having a little fun. 
Having fun has been banned on forumosa. Didn’t you get the PM?
I like the CWB. Can you see the head of the Met Service in the UK responding to an email?
And to one in Chinese?
^^^ Actually, they are pretty helpful. They once gave me a username and password to their state-of-the-art MM5 modeling system just because I asked nicely. Now if I could just get them to provide raw radiosonde data from stations other than Taipei I’d offer to bear their children.
