In terms of rainfall, there has been a decline in precipitation in northeastern Taiwan, but in southwestern Taiwan the trend has been toward more rain. At the same time, there has been an appreciable islandwide drop in both the number of days with rain and the total hours of rain.
降雨方面，則呈現東北部年雨量有減少現象，西南部則有增加趨勢；年雨日和時數，則呈現全島性的明顯減少。