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Typhoon country
The week before I got here, Typhoon Sinlaku hit Taiwan. The eye of the storm actually came right through these parts, as you can see from this cool chart (all images in this post thanks to Wunderground).
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Sinlaku managed to cause quite a ruckus (please ignore the stats in the top left corner of the above image). Here in Chungli it was mostly rain and a bit of wind, nothing serious, but a lot of places on the eastern coast got bashed pretty hard. (Taiwan has a large mountain range on the east side which I can only assume slows down bad weather before it hits places like Chungli.) Since I’ve been in Taiwan, though, it’s been all sunshine and happiness.
Cue Typhoon Hagupit. Initially forecast to become a Category 3 or 4 over the water and follow a path similar to Sinlaku’s, it’s since been predicted that it won’t rise above a Category 2, and will in fact be downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hits land. That land will be in China, by the way, as the storm is now thought to be heading well south of Taiwan.
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While we will probably see some rain here, it doesn’t like look this storm is going to do much damage to anyone (yes, I’m rapping my knuckles on my desk right now). It’s interesting to me, though, that the above image shows Hagupit missing Taiwan by a considerable margin. Of course, that’s really just the position of the storm center, so the arms of the beast will definitely say hello as far north as Chungli and Taipei.

This morning was one of the sunniest, most pleasant ones I’ve seen here yet—and that’s saying a lot!—but the winds are picking up already. There are large cumulus clouds moving quickly across the sky, though the sun is still shining brightly. The clouds are clearly coming out of the northeast, which is a strange pattern. Or would be strange, if not for the circumstances.
I think I’ll stay in after dinner tonight.
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- Sep 22 2008 / 14:53
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