The nation is set to experience drier weather and temperatures between 16°C and 20°C through spring as the effects of La Nina intensify, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said yesterday.
Despite an unusually warm November, average temperatures between next month and the end of February are likely to be more in line with the past few years, said Chen Yi-liang (陳怡良), deputy head of the bureau’s Weather Forecast Center.
The bureau forecast lows of 17°C and highs of 20°C for next month, 16°C to 18°C in January and 16°C to 19°C degrees in February.
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However, the bureau added that with cold air frequently heading south, the next few months could also bring cold snaps.
The opposite of El Nino, La Nina is an oceanic and atmospheric phenomenon that refers to the periodic cooling of ocean surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific.
From September to October, the northeast monsoon and the peripheral circulation of storms and typhoons made the northern and eastern parts of Taiwan cooler relative to the rest of the country, the bureau said.
The average temperature from Sept. 1 to Wednesday was 25.7°C, which was within the normal range, it said.
The weather station on Yushan (玉山) — 3,952m above sea level — recorded an average temperature of 6.07°C from September to the start of this month and a record-breaking average of 8.03°C for this month, the bureau said.
The second-highest average temperature, recorded in 2017, was 7.67°C, it said.
Rainfall during autumn was mainly affected by tropical storms Nesat and Nalgae, and northeast monsoons, the bureau said.
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