Weather

Mercury to dip below 13°C in North

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-11-25
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Temperatures in Taiwan are expected to drop overnight Wednesday as one cold

Mercury to dip below 13°C in North. Central News Agency

Mercury to dip below 13°C in North. Central News Agency

air mass is approaching the island, with northern Taiwan likely to see a low of 13 degrees Celsius Thursday.

According to the Central Weather Bureau, the temperature in Taipei would hover around 14 degrees Celsius at the lowest on Thursday. The weather in northern Taiwan will remain cold and dry until the weekend.

Central and southern Taiwan could see the mercury drop to 15 and 17 degrees Celsius, respectively, the weather report said.      [FULL  STORY]

Record-high November temperatures show few signs of winter

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/11/18
By: Chen Wei-ting and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, Nov. 18 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau said Wednesday that Taiwan 4062496has seen few signs of winter weather as November progresses, as temperatures in Taipei hit a record-high of 33.1 degrees Celsius a day earlier.

The bureau said Taiwan usually sees increasing seasonal winds from the northeast, coupled with cold air masses in November, but this year, only a few weak waves of seasonal winds have been recorded so far.

The situation is bit unusual, forecasters said, although they could not come up with an explanation for the warmer-than-usual weather.

On Tuesday, the mercury in Taipei soared to a daytime high of 33.1 degrees, a record for the mid-tolate- November period, according to bureau data. The average temperature for this period is 20-22 degrees Celsius.     [FULL  STORY]

Tropical storm strengthens to typhoon

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/11/17
By: Wang Shu-feng and Lee Mei-yu

Taipei, Nov. 17 (CNA) A typhoon has developed over the Pacific, but so far, it is not forecast to 201511170040t0001hit Taiwan, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Tuesday.

As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, IN-FA, the 26th typhoon of this year, was centered over 5,000 kilometers east-southeast of Taiwan, moving at a speed of between 21 kilometers per hour and 26 kph in a westerly direction, veering toward west-northwest.

With a radius of 100 km, Typhoon IN-FA is carrying maximum sustained winds of 18 meters per second, with gusts of up to 25 mps.     [FULL  STORY]

Temperatures forecast to dip below 20 degrees over weekend

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/10/28
By: W.T. Chen and Flor Wang

Taipei, Oct. 28 (CNA) Temperatures across Taiwan are expected to fall below 20 degrees 201510280010t0001over the weekend as a cold front approaches the country, the Central Weather Bureau reported Wednesday.

The front will come close to Taiwan Friday, bringing strong northeasterly winds that could send the temperature plummeting by 6-10 degrees to around 24 degrees during daytime hours and to 19-20 degrees at night, the bureau said.

The bureau suggested that people should wear warm clothes and carry umbrellas until Nov. 3, when the front is forecast to leave Taiwan.

Meanwhile, the greater Taipei area in northern Taiwan, along with Yilan and Hualien counties in eastern Taiwan, could see sporadic rain, while the rest of the country will have partly sunny skies, it forecast.     [FULL  STORY]

NARL touts integrated weather forecast system

EARLY WARNING:The system is the first in Taiwan that combines data collected by radars and could improve torrential rain forecast accuracy by 20 to 47 percent

Taipei Times
Date: Oct 21, 2015
By: Chen Wei-han  /  Staff reporter

The National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) has developed an 2015-10-22_1118.MOS0integrated radar weather forecast system to provide an emergency warning and response advisory six hours before a potential disaster strikes, reducing casualty rates in disaster-prone areas.

The system is the first in the nation that incorporates data collected by radars, with torrential rain forecast accuracy improved by between 20 percent and 47 percent compared with the systems employed by the Central Weather Bureau, NARL researcher Tsai Chih-chien (蔡直謙) said.

The bureau’s current weather forecast system analyzes data collected by satellites, ground observation stations and weather balloons to measure temperature, atmospheric pressure and moisture among others.     [FULL  STORY]

Weather bureau likely to issue sea warning for storm Tuesday

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/10/19
By: Wang Shu-fen and Lilian WU

Taipei, Oct. 19 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Monday that 18514893it is likely to issue a sea warning for Tropical Storm Koppu on Tuesday afternoon even though the weather system has weakened from a typhoon and its strength continues to weaken.

The bureau said Koppu is now located around 400 kilometers south of Eluanpi, the southernmost tip of Taiwan, and is slowly moving in a north-northeast direction that will change to an east-northeast course.

Koppu will leave Luzon in the Philippines Tuesday morning and enter the Bashi Channel, the bureau said.

Judging from its current path, the tropical storm could move northward toward Taiwan, but as its strength dissipates and the storm’s radius shrinks, it remains uncertain how much it will affect Taiwan.     [FULL  STORY]

Koppu losing strength, heavy rain forecast for Taiwan

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/10/18
By: S.F. Wang and Flor Wang

Taipei, Oct. 18 (CNA) Strong Typhoon Koppu has been losing strength and is

From the Central Weather Bureau website

From the Central Weather Bureau website

forecast to bring heavy rain to northern and eastern parts of Taiwan on Monday, according to the Central Weather Bureau.

Although Koppu has made landfall in the Philippines and been downgraded, the bureau said it is expected to veer northwards and that it will not be able to determine its likely effect on Taiwan more accurately until Tuesday.

Koppu is currently located about 680km south southeast of the southernmost point of Cape Erluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), according to the bureau.     [FULL  STORY]

Sunny weather in Taiwan forecast to last until Sunday

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/10/17
By: Chen Wei-ting and Lee Mei-yu

Taipei, Oct. 17 (CNA) Taiwan can expect at least one more day of clear 201510170019t0001skies before the outer bands of Typhoon Koppu begin to affect the island, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Saturday.

The storm had slowed down and was moving at 6-10 kilometers per hour in a westerly direction, carrying maximum sustained winds of 162 kph, with gusts of up to 198 kph, according to the bureau’s data as of 2 p.m. Saturday.

By 2 p.m. Sunday, the eye of Koppu will be located 670 kilometers south-southeast of Cape Eluani, Taiwan’s southernmost tip, the weather bureau said, warning fishermen east of the Philippines and in the Bashi Channel to stay alert.

With a radius of 200 kilometers, the storm is expected to begin bringing scattered rainfall to northern and eastern parts of Taiwan on Sunday, the bureau said.     [FULL  STORY]

Typhoon Koppu moving slowly, to affect Taiwan next week

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/10/17
By: Chen Wei-ting and Elaine Hou

Taipei, Oct. 17 (CNA) Typhoon Koppu is moving in a slow pace, but its

(From the Central Weather Bureau website)

(From the Central Weather Bureau website)

peripheral cloud system is expected to bring rain to the northern and eastern parts of Taiwan starting from Sunday, the Central Weather Bureau said Saturday.

As of Saturday morning, Koppu was about 810 kilometers from Taiwan, moving at a speed of 10 km per hour in a westerly direction toward Luzon Island in the Philippines, the bureau said.

The storm was previously expected to move closer to Taiwan next Tuesday, but the bureau said that it would take longer before Koppu brings heavy rain to the island, given that it is now moving at a slower pace.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan weather bureau keeps an eye on tropical storm Koppu

Want China Times
Date: 2015-10-16
By: CNA

Tropical Storm Koppu continues to move west and will likely turn into a

Koppu is on course for the Philippines but could potentially move north to affect Taiwan, Oct. 15. (Photo/Central Weather Bureau)

Koppu is on course for the Philippines but could potentially move north to affect Taiwan, Oct. 15. (Photo/Central Weather Bureau)

moderate typhoon Friday Depending on whether it veers northward, Taiwan’s weather authorities will not rule out the possibility of issuing sea and land warnings, a meteorologist said Thursday.

Koppu, located 1,260 km from Taiwan at 2pm Thursday, was moving in a westerly direction toward the Philippines at a speed of 14 km per hour with sustained winds of 25 meters per second and gusts of up to 33 meters per second with a radius of 120 km, according to the Central Weather Bureau.

Hsu Chung-yi, a CWB forecaster, said he would not rule out the possibility of issuing both sea and land warnings for the storm in the worst-case scenario that it hits Taiwan instead of traveling north toward China or past eastern Taiwan.     [FULL  STORY]