Most regard Typhoon Nari's dumping of 1000 millimeters of rain on parts of northern Taiwan in one night-an amount equal to one-third of the area's annual rainfall-as an anomaly. An increasing number of heavy downpours in the north is not the point. Wu Ming-chin says, "the problem is not changes in the hydrological cycle, but rather overdevelopment of the land."
大家都說納莉颱風是凶神惡煞，一夜之間下了一千公釐、全年三分之一的雨量，吳明進卻強調，北部暴雨量增加不是絕對重點，「水文改變不是問題，地文開發壓力太大才是病因。」