Temperatures are likely to fall to a low of 8oC during the first four days of the Lunar New Year holiday, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.
Bureau forecast center director Daniel Wu (
Rainy weather is expected nationwide both today and tomorrow, he said, adding that the rain could ease by Thursday.
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The early morning temperature in Taipei is expected to drop to 10oC. In coastal areas, including Tamsui (
Temperatures could climb starting on Sunday, as the force of the cold front may have weakened by then, he said. However, because of winds from the northeast, temperatures would remain low.
Meanwhile, chances of rain in the north remain high in the north and northeast regions for the entire holiday.
Because of the rain, snow is expected today and tomorrow on mountains with an altitude of 3,000m and above, including Hohuanshan (合歡山) and Yushan (玉山).
In a presentation yesterday, Wu also commented on the conditions in China.
"The worst has passed," he said. "The cold mass has begun to move."
Based on bureau forecasts, temperatures from tomorrow until Monday would remain between 9oC and 16oC in the north, 9oC and 22oC in central areas, 15oC and 25oC in the south and between 16oC and 21oC in the east.
Bureau statistics for the past five years showed that the Lunar New Year holiday in 2004 was the coldest, with average temperatures during those six days reaching only 9oC.
The bureau also reported that the average temperature in January was 18.55oC, the eighth-warmest January in the nation's history.
The warmest month of January occurred in 1954, with an average temperature of 19.28oC.
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