The Central Weather Administration (CWA) today placed Taipei and New Taipei City under extremely heavy rain or torrential rain advisories, warning of intense rainfall throughout the day.
The agency defines "extremely heavy rain" as accumulated rainfall of 200mm or more within 24 hours, or 100mm or more within three hours.
Photo: Taipei Times
"Torrential rain" refers to accumulated rainfall of 350mm or more in 24 hours, or more than 200mm within three hours.
Photo courtesy of the Central Weather Administration
According to the CWA Web site, the location in Taiwan that saw the highest levels of accumulated rainfall between yesterday and 7am today was Nangang District (南港) in Taipei, which was soaked with 291.5mm of rain.
Following Nangang was New Taipei City's Shiding District (石碇), which accumulated 287.5mm of rainfall in the same duration, CWA data showed.
The CWA said that due to the effects of seasonal northeasterly winds and the outer bands of Tropical Storm Fengshen, it also issued heavy rain or extremely heavy rain advisories for Taoyuan, the Keelung north coast and Yilan County.
Additionally, the CWA placed Hsinchu and Taitung counties under heavy rain advisories, warning of the possibility of rainfall exceeding 40mm in an hour or 80mm in 24 hours.
Besides Hsinchu and Taitung, the CWA warned Orchid (Lanyu, 蘭嶼) and Green (綠島) islands of localized heavy rain today.
The CWA said that the rain alerts would stay in effect between this morning and tomorrow night, urging residents of the locations to be aware of sudden heavy rainfall and strong winds.
The agency advised residents in low-lying areas to be alert for potential flooding, while those in mountainous regions should watch out for landslides, mudslides, and sudden rises in river and stream levels.
Independent meteorologist Wu Der-rong (吳德榮) also warned of heavy rain from today to Wednesday, echoing the CWA's advisories for northern and northeastern Taiwan over the next two days.
Wu said that the heavy rain comes from the combined effects of seasonal northeasterly winds and Tropical Storm Fengshen.
As of 8am today, Fengshen's center was about 610km southwest of Cape Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan's southernmost point, moving west-southwest at a speed of 20kph, the CWA said.
Wu said the latest forecast projects the storm to move toward the eastern side of China's Hainan Island.
Fengshen is then expected to shift southwest, moving away from Taiwan and reaching the southern side of Hainan by Wednesday, Wu said.
Although the storm would move farther from Taiwan, moisture brought by seasonal northeasterly winds could still bring heavy to extremely heavy rain to northern and eastern Taiwan between Thursday and Friday, he said.
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