Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/01

Taipei, Oct. 1 (CNA) Seven weather stations in Taiwan recorded their highest-ever temperatures for October on Sunday, with the Taipei weather station reporting a record high of 36.8 degrees Celsius at 12:23 p.m., the highest since its establishment in 1896, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).

Previously, the city’s highest October temperature was recorded on Oct. 7, 1938 at 36.1 degrees.

The record was also broken at the Bianqiao weather station in New Taipei, when the daytime high reached 36.3 degrees at around noon, while Chiayi County in southern Taiwan and outlying Kinmen Island hit 36.1 degrees and 35.3 degrees at 12:23 p.m., respectively, all of which are all-time October highs, CWB data shows.
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