Why is Taiwan called the "Typhoon Corridor"?

Taiwan has an average of three to four typhoon landfalls or severe impact each year, with the central mountains weakening both typhoon and zoom in rainfall, and Morakot’s 3,000 mm of rainfall being the extreme example.

"Typhoon’s Corridor"

Taiwan position at Northwest PacificTyphoon Main route crossroads: W line Typhoon hit it, turn toward Typhoon rub it. Annually 3-4 Typhoon Landfall or severely affect Taiwan, Tailand, Eiland is the landfall most frequent area.

Central Mountains: The Twin Sword of Wind and Rain

纵贯Taiwan的中央山脉平均海拔3000米以上, 对Typhoon 的Impact of独一无二:

• Reduced intensityTyphoon crossing the island was severely damaged, and the intensity was generally reduced to 1-2 levels—which also gave Fujian benefits.
• Extreme Rain Zoom inIn 2009, more than 3,000 mm of rainfall in the Ali mountain region in Morakot, close to the local total of the year, the eighty-eight floods caused more than 600 people died.
• Distortion of path.Typhoon near Taiwan often appears turns, sudden twists, center" jumping island" reorganization and other bizarre behaviors, is the world-class puzzle of the path Forecast.

Typhoon influences Taiwan

Taiwan Defense Experience

Taiwan’s Typhoon Holiday (Stop Work) decision-making, rural rain early warnings, and preventive evacuation schemes for mountainous tribes are a system of years of disaster lessons exchanged.

Data inquiry

TyphoonSaysLandfall Landfall Poll page contains Landfall information containing "Taiwan"'s History.On the route map of the Typhoon details page, you can clearly see the Intensity mutation after Typhoon crosses the central mountains ahead – the deep change in track points color on both sides of the island is an intuitive evidence of the degradation of the terrain.