The recent rain is expected to ease off by tomorrow, but temperatures in the north will remain low, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.
The bureau forecast that another wave of northeast seasonal wind would arrive tomorrow, bringing dry air to the nation, with highs in both north and northeastern regions expected to hit 24°C, and lows forecast at about 18°C.
The bureau warned residents living in central and southern regions to be alert for drastic temperature changes between night and day.
Highs in these areas are expected to top between 27°C and 28°C, but lows could be as low as 20°C. The bureau said the chance of showers remains high today in northern, northeastern and eastern regions.
TREMOR
Meanwhile, the nation was shaken by an earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale at 5:46am yesterday.
Bureau statistics show that the epicenter of the earthquake was 9.4km northeast of Nanao (南澳) in Ilan County. The depth of the quake was 70.6km. The largest intensity of 3 was felt in Nioudou (牛鬥) in Ilan County, Taroko (太魯閣) in Hualien County, Banciao (板橋) in Taipei County and Taoyuan City.
However, the intensity was 2 in Yilan City, Sanguang (三光) in Taoyuan County, Hehuanshan (合歡山) in Nantou County and Deji (德基) in Taichung County. The intensity measured in both Taipei and Hualien cites was 1.
Kuo Kai-wen (郭鎧紋), director of the bureau’s Seismology Center, said the quake was caused by normal plate movement.
Two other earthquakes occurred in Hualien and Kaohsiung early yesterday morning, measuring 4 and 4.1 respectively on the Richter scale.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching