Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/12/28
By: Chen Wei-ting and Frances Huang

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Taipei, Dec. 28 (CNA) The average mercury so far for December hit the highest level for this month since 1897, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Friday.

In a news conference, Lu Kuo-chen (呂國臣), director of the bureau’s Weather Forecast Center, said that between Dec. 1-26, the average temperature around Taiwan was 21.4 degrees Celsius, the highest level since the CWB started setting up weather monitoring stations in 1897.

The temperature was about 2.4 degrees higher than the average for December as recorded by the bureau, Lu said.

According to the CWB, 15 out of its 18 monitoring stations recorded the highest December temperatures, in particular in southern Taiwan.    [FULL  STORY]