The Global average temperature reached a record high in the first 11 months of this year, while Taiwan’s annual average is to end up as the sixth-highest in recorded history, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) told a news conference yesterday.
The average global temperature was up 1.15°C in the first 11 months of this year, compared with the 100-year average between 1901 and 2000, CWA Weather Forecast Center Director Chen Yi-liang (陳怡良) said.
The average national temperature this year was 24.26°C as of Wednesday, which was 1.14°C above the 100-year average, Chen said.
Photo: Chen Yi-kuan, Taipei Times
Every month’s temperature was higher than its average except for May, he added.
The hottest year on record in Taiwan was 2020, with an average temperature of 24.6°C, according to CWA data.
Regarding precipitation, rainfall throughout the year was about 90 percent of the average annual rainfall, he said.
However, there were 23.9 fewer days with rainfall over the year than the average, he added.
The concentration of rainfall during the plum rain season and the typhoon season from May to October reflected a typical precipitation pattern seen under climate change, Chen said.
As for the coming season, Chen said that the ongoing El Nino event would continue to influence weather patterns in
Taiwan before easing in the spring.
Temperatures would be higher than average from next month to March, international model predictions show.
Next month is predicted to be rainier than usual, while rainfall patterns are to return to normal in February and March, Chen said.
ECHOVIRUS 11: The rate of enterovirus infections in northern Taiwan increased last week, with a four-year-old girl developing acute flaccid paralysis, the CDC said Two imported cases of chikungunya fever were reported last week, raising the total this year to 13 cases — the most for the same period in 18 years, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. The two cases were a Taiwanese and a foreign national who both arrived from Indonesia, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Center Deputy Director Lee Chia-lin (李佳琳) said. The 13 cases reported this year are the most for the same period since chikungunya was added to the list of notifiable communicable diseases in October 2007, she said, adding that all the cases this year were imported, including 11 from
Prosecutors in New Taipei City yesterday indicted 31 individuals affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) for allegedly forging thousands of signatures in recall campaigns targeting three Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers. The indictments stem from investigations launched earlier this year after DPP lawmakers Su Chiao-hui (蘇巧慧) and Lee Kuen-cheng (李坤城) filed criminal complaints accusing campaign organizers of submitting false signatures in recall petitions against them. According to the New Taipei District Prosecutors Office, a total of 2,566 forged recall proposal forms in the initial proposer petition were found during the probe. Among those
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) today condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after the Czech officials confirmed that Chinese agents had surveilled Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) during her visit to Prague in March last year. Czech Military Intelligence director Petr Bartovsky yesterday said that Chinese operatives had attempted to create the conditions to carry out a demonstrative incident involving Hsiao, going as far as to plan a collision with her car. Hsiao was vice president-elect at the time. The MAC said that it has requested an explanation and demanded a public apology from Beijing. The CCP has repeatedly ignored the desires
The Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant’s license has expired and it cannot simply be restarted, the Executive Yuan said today, ahead of national debates on the nuclear power referendum. The No. 2 reactor at the Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung County was disconnected from the nation’s power grid and completely shut down on May 17, the day its license expired. The government would prioritize people’s safety and conduct necessary evaluations and checks if there is a need to extend the service life of the reactor, Executive Yuan spokeswoman Michelle Lee (李慧芝) told a news conference. Lee said that the referendum would read: “Do
RSS