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How much rain the weather model puts on the hills above Taiping and on the town itself — the last two days and the next two, since JPS's own rain gauges for this catchment aren't reporting. Not a flood warning.
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Steady rain
11 mm over the hills above Bukit Larut, last 2 days
Next 2 days: a little rain expected
Taiping's flash floods come off the Bintang Range, not from Sungai Larut rising slowly — the trigger residents and reports describe is hours of continuous rain, not a river level. JPS Perak's own rainfall telemetry for this catchment has been returning empty rows since at least August 2026, so this reads a weather model instead: how much rain it puts on the hills above town, and on the town itself, the last two days and the next two.
The real warnings come by radio
JPS's own rainfall gauges for this catchment are not reporting
Where evacuations have happened before
Steady rain has fallen over the hills above Bukit Larut in the last two days — about ten millimetres.
Over the next two days the model expects a little rain over the hills above Bukit Larut — about seven millimetres.
These are weather-model estimates of rain, not measurements — and rain figures are never a flood forecast.
From the high slopes down to town — the order the water travels. Rain up top can reach the valley hours later; rain in town says little about what is coming downstream.
where the range catches the rain before it drains toward Taiping
where the river leaves the hills and enters the flat kampung land
where the water arrives, and where it flooded Jalan Penjara and the grounds of Hospital Taiping
Every figure here is a weather model’s estimate for an area, not a rain gauge and not a river gauge. The model works on a coarse grid — one mountain valley can catch a storm the model spreads across the whole slope, or misses.
“banjir kilat sekitar bandar Taiping, jln Penjara & Hospital Taiping pun masuk air”
Translated for this page:“Flash flooding around Taiping town — Jalan Penjara, and even Hospital Taiping took in water.”
That experience is the honest frame for this page. Heavy rain on the mountains is a reason to be more watchful; calm skies are never a promise of safety. This page can add context — it can never replace the warning chain above.
Plain sentences a presenter can read on air, checked 29 August at 5:32 pm.
Rainfall update for the Sungai Larut catchment, from the Open-Meteo weather model.
In the last two days the model estimates about ten millimetres of rain over the hills above Bukit Larut, and about five millimetres over Taiping town itself.
Over the next two days it expects about seven millimetres over the hills above Bukit Larut.
These figures come from a weather model — they are estimates, not measurements, and they are not a flood warning.
This is a rain model, not a flood forecast and not a river reading — for what to actually do, listen to APM and the district office.
Updated 29 August at 5:32 pm. Rainfall figures are model estimates from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), read at the points named above; high-slope points use an elevation setting so the model downscales to that height. No river-level gauge feeds this page — none is publicly available here.