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(meteorobs) Travel plans: Taiwan

I have plans to travel to Taiwan, as we Europeans have no own maximum or
even an secondary peak! The other alternative is South Korea (no sense to go
on monsoons in Guam!). Taiwan may be better, as there is possible to go up
to 3000 meters or more.
Does somebody have any experience about clouds on the mountains versus sea
shore? How much better prospects are on the mountains for clear skies?
In 1998 I was in China (under good skies at Great Wall) and in 1999 in
Tunisia (only breaks on cloud cover). In 2000 I stayed in Finland and was
able to find quite good sky just near the Russian border (less than 10 km
from the border!) in the south-eastern Finland.
My meteor page can be found on http://www.saunalahti.fi/fmbb/astro/ (click
meteorit).
Timo Leponiemi
Hyvinkää
Finland
-----Original Message-----
From: Skywayinc@aol.com <Skywayinc@aol.com>
To: meteorobs@jovian.com <meteorobs@jovian.com>
Date: 12. maaliskuuta 2001 10:13
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Travel plans for the 2001 Leonids?


>In a message dated 1/18/01 3:41:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>dedalus@latrade.com writes:
>
><< Do any of our readers have plans to do significant traveling in this
>upcoming
> November? Are there perhaps even group trips in the early planning stages?
>And
> if you are planning to "run after the Leonids" this year, where do you
intend
> to go, and what predictive model or models are you basing your plans on?
>>
>
>    While there seems to be a distinct possibility of a display in the ZHR
>range of 5000 to 10000 over eastern Asia and Australia, keep in mind that
>North Americans may have chance of encountering a another meteor trail that
>might produce ZHRs of 2000 to 2500.  These are the kind of rates being
>suggested by Asher/McNaught, Lytinnen/Van Flandern and Brown/Cooke.  Not a
>bad consolation prize!
>
>      If there were only one (and only) shot at seeing a big outburst on
the
>other side of the globe I'd probably already have my travel tickets in
hand;
>but the prospects of being able to briefly see storm-levels from here in
the
>good old USA may very well keep me on this side of the world for 2001.
>
>-- joe rao
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