Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/17
By: Wang Shu-fen, Wu Hsin-yun, Yu Kai-hsiang and Kuo Chung-han
Taipei, July 17 (CNA) The temperature in Taipei hit 38.2 degrees Celsius at 12:35 p.m. on
Taipei, Saturday.
Sunday, making it the hottest day in the city so far in July and the second hottest day of the year, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).
On Saturday, Taipei recorded a July high of 37.7 degrees at 1:01 p.m. and the temperature was still at 31.2 degrees at 10:15 p.m., according to the bureau.
Taipei’s highest temperature this year was 38.7 degrees on the afternoon of June 1, setting a record for June in the city’s recorded history and coming in as the third hottest on record since the Taipei Weather Station was set up in 1896.
Temperatures in Taiwan rarely reached 38 degrees in the past, in part because it is an island, but the threshold has been breached more frequently in recent years, said Cheng Ming-dean (鄭明典), director of the bureau’s Weather Forecast Center, on Sunday. [FULL STORY]
