NATIONWIDE: Plum rain fronts usually arrive in northern Taiwan before reaching south, but this year, the first front is to affect the entire nation in the first half of this month
Taipei Times
Date: May 01, 2019
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
This year’s plum rain season is to be warmer than usual, while rainfall amounts are likely
Two graphics show historical average amounts of rainfall during the plum rain season. Northern Taiwan typically sees more rainfall in May, while southern Taiwan sees more rainfall in June.Photo courtesy of the Central Weather Bureau
to be within the normal range, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.
The plum rain season generally occurs in May and June, and is named after its coincidence with the ripening of plums in southern China, the bureau said.
Heavy rains during the season are caused by stationary fronts that hover above southern China, Taiwan and Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, it added.
A typical plum rain front is formed when the atmosphere is influenced by the southwest monsoon, Weather Forecast Center Director Lu Kuo-chen (呂國臣) said. [FULL STORY]
