The average temperature in Taiwan this year was 24.53°C, the twelfth-highest since records began in 1897, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said today in an end-of-year media conference.
The average temperature was taken from Jan. 1 until Sunday, with this year 1.22°C higher than the 100-year average recorded from 1901 to 2000, the CWA said.
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The average global temperature this year was 14°C, the second-highest since 1850, though not surpassing last year’s record-breaking high, CWA Weather Forecast Center director Huang Chun-hsi (黃椿喜) said.
Taiwan’s average temperature is also higher than the 100-year average, showing that it is also facing the effects of global warming, Huang said.
A total of 27 typhoons occurred in the northwest Pacific this year, four of which affected Taiwan, with Typhoon Danas and a southwesterly airstream in July devastating Chiayi and Tainan, and Super Typhoon Ragasa causing Hualien County’s Mataian River (馬太鞍溪) barrier lake to breach in September, he added.
Meanwhile, cumulative rainfall this year was above average, Huang said.
However, Taiwan experienced just 128.2 days of rain, the ninth-lowest since 1951, he said.
Most of the year’s rainfall was concentrated in July, which experienced the highest total rainfall for that period since 1951, he added.
Looking forward to this winter, Taiwan is currently experiencing a La Niña weather pattern, though temperatures would warm up from January to March and rainfall would be normal or below average, though short-term weather fluctuations are still to be expected, he said.
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