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Re: (meteorobs) Taiwan weather on 11/18/01
Yes, at least 7 Finnish enthusiast (includng me) are coming to Taiwan to
watch Leonids...
In 1998 I was in China (120 km NW of Beijing) with clear skies, in 1999 in
Tunisia (only breaks in cloud cover) and in 2000 in Finland (just 10 km from
Russian border) with quite goos sky (probably almost the only place in
Finland with clear sky). Now we have plans to travel to Taiwan and we
probably travel to SE part of the country to mountainous region...
Timo Leponiemi
fmbb@sci.fi
http://www.saunalahti.fi/fmbb/astro (click meteorit to see my meteor photos)
-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Saunders <stuart@ficnetdot net>
To: meteorobs@jovian.com <meteorobs@jovian.com>
Date: 13. kesäkuuta 2001 9:30
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Taiwan weather on 11/18/01
>Richard,
> I live in Taipei, and will be in Taiwan for the Leonids this year.
>
> I have also been looking for specific information on this,
>particularly the height of the cloud ceiling. No luck so far. I will pursue
>it with the Central Weather Bureau.
>
> I can give you some general points though.
> The south (Kaoishiung to Kenting) is usually clearer than the north.
>Possibly even money or better chance of clear skies.
> The north is significantly worse. (Taipei is worst, being stuck in a
>valley which creates and retains the clouds) Good viewing is also much the
>exception in Taipei, also because of the combined effects of light and air
>pollution, even if the sky happens to be clear.
>
> The safest bet is to get as high as possible. We watched the '98
Leonids
>from Alishan (Mt Ali - 2663 M) which is in the south of Taiwan, east of
>Chaiyi. It was spectacular.
>
> What I don't know is what are the chances that Taiwan will be entirely
>clouded out, including the mountains. I will try to find this information
>from the weather bureau. I am just about to go home for 10 days but will
>look into it when I return.
> When viewing from the mountians, get there early, (a day early would be
>best, to set up etc. Also don't expect to get away for a long time after.
It
>took us till early afternoon to be able to leave due to the heavy traffic.
>(Narrow mountain roads, and a lot of Taiwans 22 million like to see the
>Leonids. This year is likely to be considerably worse)
>
> In the meantime you can view satellite images at
> <http://www.cwbdot gov.tw/V3.0e/index-e.htm>
> However you can't tell the cloud height. Also I am not sure if archived
>photos are available.
>
> Anybody else thinking of coming to Taiwan?
>
> Stuart.
>
>
>
>on 6/13/01 9:57 AM, RICHARDSEA@aol.com at RICHARDSEA@aol.com wrote:
>
>> I am looking for data on the cloud cover patterns in Taiwan in hopes of
>> viewing the Leonids this november. Does anyone have information to see
where
>> the clearest skies will be? Anyone else going there or guam?
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