Kalmaegi

On Thursday morning, the tropical storm was upgraded to a Cat. 1 typhoon. The forecasts said that it should hit Taipei that same midnight. But I guessed that something had changed, because it was not raining and there was almost no wind at about 10:30pm. Yesterday, I saw on the web, at the japanese agency, that as soon as it touched ground, it turned West, and just before reaching the other coast it turned back North and said good-bye. Another postdoc, Simon, told me that that, and the weakening of the storm, is the typical effect of Taiwan's mountain range.

The result was that it rained non-stop the whole morning, since who knows when —it was already raining at 7am when I woke up— until around 3pm or 4pm. I expected more, because I had already experienced this continuous rain in Columbus when the remains of a hurricane that had hit the South reached us. But I am not complaining either. In the afternoon, I could see how the sky was clear towards the East, behind the mountains.

And with this, I finish the weather report.