No sooner had Typhoon Zeb started to leave, than medium-strength Typhoon Babs formed in the South China Sea. Although Babs did not strike Taiwan directly, its heavy peripheral rains, which caused major flooding around the island, added insult to injury.
瑞伯前腳剛走，接著南海又形成一個中度颱風芭比絲，芭比絲雖未直撲台灣，外圍環流帶來的豪雨，卻落井下石地在台灣各地造成嚴重水患。