Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-11-19

Taiwan has seen the arrival of the first bout of cold, wet weather with the arrival of northeasterly winds and a rain system from eastern Taiwan.

The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) says the wave of cold air will be at its strongest on Sunday with the mercury dropping to 15.9 degrees Celsius in New Taipei’s Danshui District and Taoyuan’s Xinwu district in the early hours of Sunday morning. That was the lowest temperature yet of the autumn season this year.

It was even colder on two of Taiwan’s outlying islands, which lie close to the southern Chinese coastline. The lowest temperatures of 12.7 degrees was recorded on Sunday morning on Matsu, while temperatures dropped to 15 degrees on Kinmen.
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