Focus Taiwan
Date: 06/17/2020
By: Yu Hsiao-han, Yang Su-ching, Lee Hsien-feng and Joseph Yeh

Taipei, June 17 (CNA) The mercury hit 37.6 degrees Celsius in Taipei on Wednesday afternoon, the highest in Taiwan's capital this year, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).

The new high was recorded at 2:22 p.m., the CWB noted.

The hottest temperature so far this year came after the CWB issued its second-highest orange heat alert for Taipei earlier in the day.

The bureau, meanwhile, issued its highest level red heat alert for Hualien County in eastern Taiwan, where the daytime temperature hit 38.5 degrees at around noon that day.
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