Plum rain keeps further water restrictions at bayBy Angelica Oung / Staff reporterLast weekend’s plum rain came just in time to stave off further water restrictions, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday. For areas under a red alert, weekly water supplies to households and businesses are on for five days and off for two. By the time this plum rain runs its course it would bring more than 100 million tonnes of water to reservoirs nationwide, it said. “We expect this plum rain to linger until Tuesday,” WRA Deputy Director-General Wang Yi-feng (王藝峰) said, citing forecasts by the Central Weather Bureau. It would take another 110mm of rainfall before the red alert is removed for counties in central Taiwan.

Source: Taipei Times May 31, 2021 15:56 UTC