Want China Times
Date: 2015-05-23
By: CNA
People in northern, central and southern Taiwan as well as northeastern Taiwan can
Rainy weather in Kaohsiung, May 22. (Photo/CNA)
expect showers and thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday as the first weather front of this year’s monsoon season moved northward, the Central Weather Bureau forecast Friday.
The front will continue to affect Taiwan through May 31, the bureau said.
The weather front brought heavy rain to southern Taiwan on Friday evening, with one rain collection station in Taiwu township in Pingtung county getting up to 58 millimeters of rain in a single hour.
From midnight Thursday to 9:20pm Friday, 249.5 mm of water had fallen on Xidawu Mountain in another part of the township, the most rainfall produced in a single day anywhere in Taiwan since the current rainy season began to affect the country a week ago. [FULL STORY]
