A brief stop yesterday on the way to Hoi An. This country knows how to do rest stops, gotta say. Bathrooms are clean, there is food and snacks and this one also had freshwater pearl jewelry for sale but that’s not the interesting part.
This stop is at a large lagoon known for the pearls and oysters. It is in the shadow of the White Mountain or Bach Ma Mountain. And is known also for the 2nd highest rainfall in the world due to the geological features of the mountain.: it acts as a rain funnel by the outward curvature of the peaks Rainfall here is an average of 8,000mm rain annually at the peak and 3,500 in the foothills. That’s 315”
September, October and November are the high rainfall months with a higher probability of a typhoon as well. Cool air from China plus warm sea air equals a large moisture mass (or an inter-tropical convergence zone)that just dumps on this area.
So, it comes as no surprise that it wasn’t just pouring but seriously I have learned the true definition of Monsooning today. Even the ducks are a tad damp….
Interestingly the rain continued overnight like that too. Here in Hoi An the river is abating but the flooding was intense with still some effect:
This was the water level just 30ft from the restaurant last night…
And after a hard nights rain here are is the street view from the hotel where it was bare and wet last night:
Supposed to dry out today before the next big storm!!
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