Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-30
By: Chen Wei-ting and Christie Chen, Central News Agency

Taipei, July 30 (CNA) A tropical depression east of the Philippines is continuing to strengthen and could develop into the fourth storm of the 2016 Pacific typhoon season on Saturday, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said.
As of Saturday morning, it was located around 1,200 kilometers southeast of Taiwan’s southernmost tip, said Lin Ting-yi, a forecaster with the bureau.

Its effect on Taiwan can be better determined on Sunday, Lin said, adding that if the depression moves toward a northwesterly direction, it could make a landfall in Taiwan.

For now it is moving at a fast speed and is expected to come closest to Taiwan on Monday and bring showers to southeastern Taiwan beginning Sunday, he said.

If it develops into a storm, the CWB does not rule out the possibility of issuing a sea warning Sunday evening, Lin said.     [SOURCE]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/28
By: Wang Shu-fen and Lee Hsin-Yin

The scorching reading was recorded at 12:22 p.m., following 38.3 degrees registered in Banqiao in neighboring New Taipei at 12:19 p.m., bureau data shows.

Taipei also experienced 38.5 degrees the previous day, the second-highest reading in the capital for any day in July since records began in 1897. The highest temperature ever recorded in Taipei in the month was 38.6 degrees in 2010.

Taipei has experienced four days of the mercury reaching over 38 degrees so far this year, a new record since the weather station was established 119 years ago, forecasters said.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-17
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Cheng Ming-dean, weather forecast center director at the Central Weather Bureau (CWB), said in a Facebook post Sunday that the phenomenon of high temperature that had been more frequently recorded in Taipei City, such as 38.2 degrees Celsius recorded on Sunday noon, is related to the urban heat island (UHI) effect.

As Taiwan is an island, it is not easy for temperature to get higher than 38 degrees Celsius, Cheng said.

The CWB said the 38.2 degrees Celsius temperature registered in Taipei on Sunday noon is the second highest temperature in Taipei since the beginning of this year and the fifth highest in Taipei’s July history.

Cheng said, according to scholastic analysis, the spate of high temperature in Taipei is related to the effect of an urban heat island (UHI), which is caused by vegetation on land surfaces being replaced by asphalt pavements and concrete buildings.     [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: July 11, 2016
By: The China Post news staff

President Tsai Ing-wen went on an inspection tour of Taitung County on Sunday, two days after it

President Tsai Ing-wen, center, examines a farm damaged by the storm brought by Typhoon Neparkat in Taitung, Sunday. (CNA)

was slammed by Super Typhoon Nepartak.

The central government has received complaints about its “slow” rescue and reconstruction efforts after the first typhoon of Tsai’s term.

Water supply, power and transportation networks still had not resumed in some Taiwan areas as of press time.

Presidential Office Spokesman Alex Huang announced Sunday morning that Tsai would head to typhoon-hit areas, including Orchid Island, Green Island and Taitung County, before she would be briefed at the Taitung County Government Hall.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/09
By Jalen Chung, Liu Li-jung, Wu Wan-ting, Chen Chun-hua, Chen
Chih-chung, Yang Shu-min, Chang Ming-hsuan and Frances Huang

Taipei, July 9 (CNA) Terry Gou (郭台銘), chairman of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.

CNA file photo

(鴻海), announced Saturday to donate NT$10 million (US$309,598) as a disaster relief aid to Taitung County, which was hit hard by Typhoon Nepartak a day earlier.

Gou, one of the richest persons in Taiwan, made the pledge to the Taitung County government through the YongLin Healthcare Foundation (永齡健康基金會), a non-governmental charity group, to help the affected persons in the eastern county, the most seriously hit area in Taiwan by the typhoon. Gou is the founder of the foundation.

Gou is well known for his generosity. After a deadly earthquake hit southern Taiwan in early February which killed a total of 117 persons in Tainan, the entrepreneur doled out NT$200 million to help the tremblor’s victims.

In the wake of the typhoon which caused grave damage in many school campuses in Taitung, Gou said he has been very concerned about the affected children and residents in the county.     [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: July 9, 2016
By: The China Post news staff

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Typhoon Nepartak moved out into the Taiwan Strait from Jiangchun District

A truck was blown over on the traffic island of a street in downtown Taitung as Typhoon Nepartak made landfall there in the early hours of Friday bringing heavy rains and the strongest winds to hit the county in 61 years. (CNA)

of Tainan City in Southern Taiwan at 2:30 p.m., Friday after leaving three dead and 142 injured and 1,836 cases of trees and signboards falling and other damage, according to data issued by the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) and the Central Emergency Operation Center (CEOC).

CWB forecasters said that Taiwan proper will totally exit the storm circle of Nepartak early Saturday, but the outlying islands will remain under the influence of the typhoon until Saturday evening. They advised people to stay on the alert for continuing strong winds and heavy rains brought by the storm.

The first typhoon of the 2016 Pacific typhoon season made landfall in Southeastern Taiwan’s Taitung County at 5:50 a.m. Friday, pummeling much of Taiwan with strong gusts and heavy rains but with Taitung bearing the brunt of the storm, with many houses damaged, and low-lying areas flooded in the county amid the strongest winds to hit the county in 61 years.     [FULL  STORY]