Is it Snowing in taiwan currently !!
Anyone can please let us know if there is any chance we could see snowfall in taiwan recently and where?
[quote=“Hsinc”]Is it Snowing in Taiwan currently !!
Anyone can please let us know if there is any chance we could see snowfall in Taiwan recently and where?[/quote]
Just about the only places where u can drive to see “snow”, that is something falling from the sky that isnt rain but I refuse to label as real snow, in Taiwan are Hohuan Shan and Taiping Shan. Or spelt something like that… Don’t know about now, but it happened there on monday.
Yeah, it’s been snowing a bit at Hehuanshan. To see it, drive to Puli, follow the signs and look for the tailback. A l-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ng tailback.
I drove up to Yangmingshan one year to see snow but that was an extreme rarity.
Alaska…the ‘snowfall’ you see in Taibodia is manmade -not the ski resort kind, but the styrofoam kind, which the 12 black bears and 2 clouded leopards left in Taibodia will likely consume and die from.
You’ll see more snow in the freezerbox of my fridge. I was on the Jungfrau in Schweiz the other year, glorious;poor old Taiwan.
Actually, I read in the paper that the road up to Hohuan Shan was closed this week because of snow. Might want to seek information about it before you head down there.
Taipingshan is the most likely place. It’ll be more like sleet though.
TV stations are saying it snowed on Datun Shan at Yangmingshan this morning, but all they’re showing is some pathetic thin white stuff on a railing and on cobblestones between the plants.
By the time, you’re up there following the traffic jams, it might have been gone. Oh yeah, they just announced traffic restrictions. Only buses and local residents are still allowed up.
Now they moved on to Hehuanshan. And that looks real snow over there! They say the snow there could last for days.
So currently it is snowing in Ho huan Shan which is near puli right?
Are there any hotels to stay there!!Any suggestions on where to stay.I have never seen snowfall in my life…would it be a good idea to celebrate new year there and see snowfall…Do you guys think thats possible
Good luck actually traveling to anywhere with snow. There will eihter be road closures or the roads will be packed with people driving up to see the snow.
I saw snow nearly 11 months ago on the Yulao pass up behind Neiwan.
Not many cars there though. The snow was 1-2 cm deep only.
The pass is 1400 meter high, si if it’s 7 degrees and raining in the lowlands at night, it will be freezing and snowing there.
i saw snow all weekend up above bihu out of taizhong (i think that was on hehuan shan but not sure). the entire ridge of mountains to the south was covered from a light dusting to pretty heavy. very beautiful.
supernaut
[quote=“supernaut”]I saw snow all weekend up above bihu out of taizhong (I think that was on hehuan shan but not sure). the entire ridge of mountains to the south was covered from a light dusting to pretty heavy. very beautiful.[/quote]I guess you mean Bihu below Wushe in Nantou County. Hehuanshan is a fair way above Wushe/Bihu, after Chingjing Farm.
I’ve never been there before so didn’t have much idea where i was. It was about an hours drive out of Taizhong, in the same direction as Sun Moon Lake. Do you know the name of the mountain in the row of high peaks to the south of Bihu? It runs almost parallel with the main body of the lake, but is maybe another hours drive away and also alot higher.
If you got to Bihu in an hour from Taichung you must really have been motoring.[quote=“supernaut”]Do you know the name of the mountain in the row of high peaks to the south of Bihu? It runs almost parallel with the main body of the lake, but is maybe another hours drive away and also alot higher.[/quote]I can see some big mountains to the south and east of Bihu on my map but I can’t read the names. You can’t really drive to them either. Are you sure we’re talking about the same place? You went through Puli, right, then up a valley, past the entrance to Aowanda Forest Recreation Area then into the small town of Wushe, from where you looked down at Bihu?
my first time out of taipei so it was a bit of a blur. probably more than an hours drive ( didn’t have a watch so just guessing), but also we didn’t come from the centre of town. yeah we went through puli, also past a range of very steep hills that had been, i was told totally stripped in the 921 earthquake.
There was a turnoff some time after that with a big ugly sculpture that looked like someone had done donuts in their car in mud then let it dry, the left went to bihu the right to sun moon lake.
passed through a fairly steep gorge with three - i think - partial tunnels, very windy and sheer cliffs on the opposite side of the gorge. i went with some friends from taizhong who are locals so yeah it was bihu (unless i’m really confused).
i don’t think there are roads to the mountains i was talking about, they look pretty heavily forested and the peaks with snow were alpine or higher, and the main peak was above the forestline.
[quote=“supernaut”]my first time out of Taipei so it was a bit of a blur. probably more than an hours drive ( didn’t have a watch so just guessing), but also we didn’t come from the centre of town. yeah we went through Puli, also past a range of very steep hills that had been, I was told totally stripped in the 921 earthquake.
There was a turnoff some time after that with a big ugly sculpture that looked like someone had done donuts in their car in mud then let it dry, the left went to bihu the right to sun moon lake.
passed through a fairly steep gorge with three - I think - partial tunnels, very windy and sheer cliffs on the opposite side of the gorge. I went with some friends from taizhong who are locals so yeah it was bihu (unless I’m really confused).
I don’t think there are roads to the mountains I was talking about, they look pretty heavily forested and the peaks with snow were alpine or higher, and the main peak was above the forestline.[/quote]
Sure are roads from Pu Li / Nantou that come up and over into Alishan / Yushan where the snow is. It’s a bit of a ride, and damed cold up the breezy mountain roads.
[quote=“Satellite TV”]Sure are roads from Pu Li / Nantou that come up and over into Alishan / Yushan where the snow is. It’s a bit of a ride, and damed cold up the breezy mountain roads.[/quote]The stretch of the 21 from Sun Moon Lake to Dongpu? Still haven’t done that but want to.
I guess Supernaut was a bit further northeast and saw the snow around Hehuanshan. Otherwise he’d have had to backtrack from Bihu to Puli and then go south.