A heavy rain alert has today been issued for parts of Nantou County as heavy clouds move into Taiwan from southern China, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said.
The advisory, which was issued early this morning and would remain in effect through tonight, indicated that at least 80mm of rain would fall in 24 hours or 40mm would fall in one hour, the CWA said.
A frontal system is forecast to move southward across Taiwan during the day, bringing convective showers and heavier rain, independent meteorologist Wu Der-rong (吳德榮) said.
Photo: CNA
Temperatures are also expected to fall, with northern Taiwan becoming noticeably cooler, he said.
Rainfall is expected to ease tomorrow as the weather front moves south to the Bashi Channel, though cool conditions would persist, Wu said.
Conditions are forecast to improve slightly on Thursday as temperatures rise, but southern and eastern Taiwan could still experience brief, isolated showers, Wu said.
Based on the latest forecasting models, intermittent rain could prevail in parts of northern Taiwan and the eastern half of the country as seasonal northeasterly winds strengthen on Friday, again bringing cooler weather, he said.
Drier air is expected to move south over the weekend, bringing clear skies across much of Taiwan, but the eastern half of the country could still experience brief, isolated showers on Sunday, Wu said.
On Tuesday next week, sporadic showers are forecast for the north and east as northeasterly winds strengthen, he added.
Considering that most countries issue more than five denominations of banknotes, the central bank has decided to redesign all five denominations, the bank said as it prepares for the first major overhaul of the banknotes in more than 24 years. Central bank Governor Yang Chin-lung (楊金龍) is expected to report to the Legislative Yuan today on the bank’s operations and the redesign’s progress. The bank in a report sent to the legislature ahead of today’s meeting said it had commissioned a survey on the public’s preferences. Survey results showed that NT$100 and NT$1,000 banknotes are the most commonly used, while NT$200 and NT$2,000
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday reported the first case of a new COVID-19 subvariant — BA.3.2 — in a 10-year-old Singaporean girl who had a fever upon arrival in Taiwan and tested positive for the disease. The girl left Taiwan on March 20 and the case did not have a direct impact on the local community, it said. The WHO added the BA.3.2 strain to its list of Variants Under Monitoring in December last year, but this was the first imported case of the COVID-19 variant in Taiwan, CDC Deputy Director-General Lin Ming-cheng (林明誠) said. The girl arrived in Taiwan on
South Korea is planning to revise its controversial electronic arrival card, a step Taiwanese officials said prompted them to hold off on planned retaliatory measures, a South Korean media report said yesterday. A Yonhap News Agency report said that the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs is planning to remove the “previous departure place” and “next destination” fields from its e-arrival card system. The plan, reached after interagency consultations, is under review and aims to simplify entry procedures and align the electronic form with the paper version, a South Korean ministry official said. The fields — which appeared only on the electronic form
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) is suspending retaliation measures against South Korea that were set to take effect tomorrow, after Seoul said it is updating its e-arrival system, MOFA said today. The measures were to be a new round of retaliation after Taiwan on March 1 changed South Korea's designation on government-issued alien resident certificates held by South Korean nationals to "South Korea” from the "Republic of Korea," the country’s official name. The move came after months of protests to Seoul over its listing of Taiwan as "China (Taiwan)" in dropdown menus on its new online immigration entry system. MOFA last week
RSS