Warm days ahead! The forecast I’ve seen is calling for highs of 32 in the Taipei basin for the next couple of days.
For those who like this sort of thing, enjoy!
Guy
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Nice, enjoy the rest of the weekend and hope next long weekend will be the same.
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There was a beach cleanup there (and many other beaches) yesterday, so it should be looking extra beautiful. I was planning to join but overslept 
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Another advisory. Probably not the best day for river tracing or hiking in Hualien. Watch out!
Extremely Heavy Rain Advisory
Issued Time: 05/31 12:10
- Hualien County Mountain Area.
Heavy Rain Advisory or Extremely Heavy Rain Advisory in effect from early this afternoon (05/31) through tonight (05/31)
- Keelung North Coast, Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taoyuan City, Hsinchu City, Hsinchu County, Miaoli County, Taichung City, Changhua County, Nantou County, Yunlin County, Chiayi City, Chiayi County, Tainan City, Kaohsiung City Mountain Area, Pingtung County Mountain Area, Yilan County, Hualien County, Taitung County Mountain Area
Heavy Rain Advisory in effect from early this afternoon (05/31) through tonight (05/31)
Guy
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I just got an alert on my phone. For forumosans in Xindian or anywhere near the Feitsui Reservoir, take care to steer clear of creeks and rivers as they will be releasing some of the immense amount of water that has accumulated there recently.
Guy
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Eh cooler temps and rain coming in:
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Is this just the usual afternoon shower in Taipei or is this setting in?
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This will be a thicker stretch of rain than the usual summer afternoon showers. Quite a bit of rain ahead for the next week in the Taipei area. 
Guy
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YES!!! Eleven days of COVID quarantine done, and I can get outside and enjoy myself again! Woo hoo! Sure, I’m not allowed in restaurants yet, but who cares when there’s the great outdoors with all the walks and cycling I’ve missed for the past while!
Oh f*ck. You’ve got to be kidding me.
Looks like if I get up early on Friday I may be able to stay dry …
Source: windy.com; these days my preferred source of forecasts, in part because of the very useful prediction of amounts of rain.
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Based on that forecast, maybe next Monday morning? 
Guy
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Well, it’s sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and probably dinner for me.
At least the unbearable heat will be delayed…a week. Then it’s back to the Inferno.
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Disco inferno?
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I wouldn’t bet on it. I suspect the local media already have their 50th heavy-rain-forecast-for-northern-Taiwan articles of the year lined up for the end of the week. 
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Rain in this street
There’s some rain in this street
There’s some rain in this street
There’s some rain in this street (hol’ up)
I said certified freak, seven days a week
Wet ass country, make that brolly game weak, woo! (Ah)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, you fucking with some wet ass country
Bring a raincoat and a hat for this wet ass country
Soakin’ everything you got in this wet ass country
Stick up your brolly, it won’t help
Wind gonna blow extra hard
Blow these raindrop right in yo’ face
Then hang it dripping in the yard
Shiny tiles, you gotta slide
Marble tiles shouldn’t be outside
Spit in my street, avoid my eyes
This street is wet, come take a dive
Watch them run like they’re surprised
Didn’t see the clouds in these skies
I want you to drive that big blue truck right in this little puddle
Make it splash, make me scream
Out in public, make a scene
You can cook, you can clean
But let me tell you, laundry won’t dry (ayy, ayy)
Splashing me, soaking me, drip down the side of me (yeah)
Quick, jump in 'fore you let it get inside of here (yeah)
I tell him where to park it, never tell him where I’m 'bout to be
I run down taxis but I have weathermen running me
[Still ten verses to go, but I’m running out of ideas. Anyone else wanna join in?]
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I’ll make a beat
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[I managed to change the words for the last ten verses, but it feels a bit forced in places. Maybe if I dropped the limiting idea of keeping as many words as possible the same as the original?]
Rain in this street
There’s some rain in this street
There’s some rain in this street
There’s some rain in this street (hol’ up)
I said certified freak, seven days a week
Wet ass country, make that brolly game weak, woo! (Ah)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, you fucking with some wet ass country
Bring a raincoat and a hat for this wet ass country
Soakin’ everything you got in this wet ass country
Stick up your brolly, it won’t help
Wind gonna blow extra hard
Blow these raindrop right in yo’ face
Then hang it dripping in the yard
Shiny tiles, you gotta slide
Marble tiles shouldn’t be outside
Spit in my street, avoid my eyes
This street is wet, come take a dive
Watch them run like they’re surprised
Didn’t see the clouds in these skies
I want you to drive that big blue truck right in this little puddle
Make it splash, make me scream
Out in public, make a scene
You can cook, you can clean
But let me tell you, laundry won’t dry (ayy, ayy)
Splashing me, soaking me, drip down the side of me (yeah)
Quick, jump in 'fore you let it get inside with me (yeah)
I tell him where to park it, never tell him where I’m 'bout to be
I run down taxis but I have weathermen running me
Talk yo’ shit, bite your lip
Call an Uber or you will get drenched (but you still get drenched)
Gone and got me a dehumidifier
It already filled its tank up 'fore I blinked
Now get your boots and your coat for this wet ass country
He bought a phone just for pictures of this wet ass country
Blade Runner pictures every night in this wet ass country
Now make it rain if you wanna see some wet ass country
Look, I need a strong swimmer, I need a breast stroke
I need an antler drink, I need a nut chewer
Looked in the water, I saw a king cobra
With a frog in it, hope it swims over
He got some sunshine, then that’s where I’m headed
Going mental, going stir crazy
Mask fogs my visor, makes it all hazy
Ride a bit slower, and almost skid over
Wet in my coat, sweating inside
Hand over head, run down the street
Don’t want to lose hair from that acid in the air that’s coming back as rain
Extra pair of socks, and extra pair of shoes
It’s stepping out dry, and it’s coming home soggy
If this is plum rains then I want to see these plums (yuh, ah)
Must be size of melons, ain’t yet typhoon season, woo
Your honor, I’m a wet bitch, boots, galoshes
Switch my mask, it got soaked in the downpour
Drenched down to my knees, can you hear that thunder roar
Never liked the heat, but rain I can’t take any more
Ten weather apps, they all say the same thing
Last year prayed for rain, this year it’s arriving
So many days it’s been falling
“I’m just singing” you know the song “I’m dancing in…”
Global heating, gyres a turning
Pacific decadal oscillation
Either way it’s evaporating
Bring Keelung weather, for the whole nation, ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, you fucking with some wet ass country
Bring a jacket and a cap for this wet ass country
Soakin’ everything you got in this wet ass country
Now from the top, make it drop, that’s some wet ass country
Now get a jacket and a cap, that’s some wet ass country
I’m talking WAC, WAC, WAC, that’s some wet ass country
Oyster noodles in a pot, that’s some wet ass country, huh
There’s some rain in this street
There’s some rain on this roof
There’s some rain in this roof
There’s some mould in this roof
There’s some damp in this house
There’s some mould in this house
There’s some rain on this roof
There’s some rain on this roof
There’s some rain on this roof
There’s some rain on this roof
There’s some rain on this roof
There’s some rain…
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Crazy rain. I got caught in it this morning, sans umbrella. Cue stares from all directions. He is going to go bald. Looks like I’ve got to go out again and do another Mary Poppins impression this afternoon too. Good luck out there all.
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