Tropical Storm Mekkhala Causes Flooding in Taitung|米克拉颱風登陸福建 台東因連續降雨淹水
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Tropical Storm Mekkhala made landfall in China's Fujian Province on Aug. 11. Penghu is no longer affected by its peripheral circulation, but Taiwan and Kinmen still experienced heavy rain.
Tropical Storm Mekkhala's peripheral circulation caused strong winds and intermittent showers in Lanyu on Aug. 11. Meanwhile, continuous rain in Taitung City caused flooding.
People were forced to slosh through water on their vehicles. The rain also caused water to accumulate in low-lying areas, and it showed no signs of retreating. In the span of one day, Jialan Village in Taitung County's Jinfeng Township recorded an accumulated 200 millimeters of rain, while Taimali Township reported an accumulated 174 millimeters of rain. The Central Weather Bureau continuously issued heavy rain warnings. Although Mekkhala has already made landfall in China's Fujian Province, heavy or torrential rain were still possibilities in Taitung County and Pingtung County's mountainous areas on Aug. 11. Kinmen, Penghu, and areas to the south of Tainan were expected to see heavy rain.
Tropical Storm Mekkhala weakened into a tropical depression after it made landfall in China this afternoon. However, Taiwan will still be affected by the tropical depression tomorrow. There is residual water vapor, so most areas will see cloudy to clear conditions with intermittent showers.
The CWB lifted the land warning for Tropical Storm Mekkhala on the afternoon of Aug. 11. Meanwhile, another tropical depression is forming to the southeast of Japan and moving in a northwest by west direction. Although its structure is currently loose, it could form into a mild typhoon.
This tropical depression doesn't have a very good environment; its vertical wind shear is quite strong. This means that its structure is very clear, and this phenomenon of separated layers is actually detrimental to its development. However, because of the high pressure in the entire Pacific Ocean, it will slowly strengthen and move towards the west in the direction of the waters off of Taiwan's northeast coast.
Weather analysts said the current environment is unfavorable for the development of tropical depressions. During the next seven to 10 days, the sea surface will be relatively stable without any "tropical storm relay" situations. The weather is forecasted to return to sunny and cloudless with possible afternoon thunder showers across Taiwan starting on Aug. 13.
蘭嶼吹起陣陣強風，受到米克拉颱風外圍環流影響，間歇強風伴隨陣雨，台東市區也因為連續降雨，出現淹水狀況。
民眾騎車涉水而過，強降雨後，低窪地區積水暫時還沒退去，一天以來，台東縣金峰鄉嘉蘭村累積雨量突破200毫米，太麻里也有可觀雨勢，累積雨量來到174毫米，氣象局持續發布大雨特報，雖然颱風已登陸福建，但週二臺東縣及屏東縣山區仍有大雨或豪雨發生的機會，離島金門、澎湖及和臺南以南也還會有大雨。
中央氣象局資深預報員 劉宇其表示：「颱風在今天下半天，進入中國大陸之後，減弱為熱帶性低氣壓。但是明天，台灣還是受到低壓帶的影響，有一些殘餘的水氣，所以各地大致上，是多雲到晴，但是偶爾會有些陣雨的狀態。」
氣象局在下午解除米克拉颱風的陸上颱風警報，不過海面上又有熱帶低氣壓形成，位在日本東南方海面的熱低壓正逐漸往西北西移動，雖然結構鬆散，不過不排除有機會發展為輕度颱風。
天氣分析師 吳聖宇表示：「這個熱帶低壓，它的環境不是很好，它垂直風切滿強的，所以說，它的結構是很明顯的。這種高低層分離的現象，所以對它的發展，其實不是很有利。不過，因為整個太平洋高壓，未來會慢慢的西升增強，所以說這個熱帶低壓，大概也會往西，慢慢的往台灣東北方海面，這個地方移動。」
氣象專家分析，目前環境場不利熱低壓發展，未來的七到十天，海面上相對會是比較穩定，不會有"颱風接力生成"的狀況，預計週四開始，台灣各地又會恢復到晴朗炎熱，午後雷陣雨的典型夏季天氣型態。
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