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View all search resultsTaiwan capital is on its longest hot spell record
The mercury in capital city Taipei topped 36 degrees Celsius for the 10th day in a row.
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In this Sept. 6, 2016 file photo, a youth takes a drink on a hill overlooking the city after a long hot day in Madrid, Spain. Earth's 16-month sizzling streak of record high temperatures is finally over, according to one group of federal meteorologists. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last month's 60.6 degrees was merely the second hottest September on record for the globe. That's ever so slightly cooler, a few hundredths of a degree, than the record set in 2015. But it was quite a bit warmer, 1.6 degrees, than 20th century average. (AP/Paul White)
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he mercury in Taipei topped 36 degrees Celsius for the 10th day in a row Monday, making it the longest streak in the city on record.
Daytime temperatures have passed 36 C every day since Aug. 5, hitting a high today of 38.2 C, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).
This surpassed the nine-day record set from July 8-16 in 2012 to become the lengthiest Taipei hot spell in the 120 years since the Taipei weather station began making records.
There is a chance the record hot spell will continue, said the CWB, which is forecasting more hot days to come this week.
Temperatures have also reached 37 C for nine days so far in August, breaking another 120-year record.
The prolonged hot spell has put great strain on Taiwan's power system, which ran on dangerously thin reserve capacities — prompting the issuance of red power supply alerts — in the past week.
However, the repair of transmission towers at Hualien's Heping power plant, which were knocked down in a storm last month, was completed Monday, adding 1.3 gigawatts to the grid.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs, which oversees Taiwan's state-owned electricity company, said Monday that Taiwan would not see another red alert again this summer as long as the power supply system remained stable.N
This article appeared on The China Post newspaper website, which is a member of Asia News Network and a media partner of The Jakarta Post
