Taiwan records historically hot, dry weather in July

Taiwan recorded its seventh-hottest and fifth-driest July on record this year, with an average temperature of 29.5 degrees Celsius and 78.6 millimeters of rainfall, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Thursday.

(Full text of the story is now in CNA English news archive. To view the full story, you will need to be a subscribed member of the CNA archive. To subscribe, please read here.)