The catchment area of southern Taiwan’s Zengwen Reservoir (曾文水庫) saw the most single-day rainfall in 260 days on Tuesday, helping to ease concerns of a water shortage.
As of noon, a plum rain front had brought 125mm of rain to rivers upstream of the reservoir that spans Chiayi County and Tainan, the southern branch of the Water Resources Agency said.
The last time the area saw more than 100mm of rain in a single day was on Sept. 10 last year.
Photo: Wu Chun-feng, Taipei Times
Wushantou Reservoir (烏山頭水庫) and Nanhua Reservoir (南化水庫) — both in Tainan — gained 72mm and 125mm respectively, the office said as rain continued to fall.
Capacity at the Zengwen-Wushantou system had reached 34.93 percent, while the Nanhua Reservoir had reached 28.89 percent, rising slightly from the day before.
The effect of this weather front on water supply in the south is still being evaluated, the office said, adding that it would continue to adjust measures as needed.
As of 1pm, 187.5mm of rain had fallen in Tainan’s Guanshan (關山), the most in the country, Central Weather Administration data showed.
Extremely heavy rain advisories were in effect for Kaohsiung and Pingtung County, in addition to Green Island (綠島) and Orchid Island (Lanyu, 蘭嶼).
Heavy rain advisories were in effect for Taichung, as well as Nantou, Chiayi, Hualien and Taitung counties.
Interaction with nearby Typhoon Ewiniar was disintegrating the structure of the plum rain front, moving it to areas atypical of such systems, former Central Weather Bureau director-general Cheng Ming-dean (鄭明典) said.
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