The day after tomorrow (20th) is the beginning of the 10-day Chinese New Year holiday. From the second day to the fourth day of the first day, there will be a strong continental air mass or cold air level southward for 3 consecutive days.

The picture shows the somatosensory temperature curve of Taipei City in the coming week.

(taken from Central Weather Bureau)

[Reporter Chen Xinyu/Taipei Report] The day after tomorrow (20th) is New Year’s Eve and the Lunar New Year’s 10-day holiday. The Central Meteorological Bureau predicts that there will be two waves of cold air going south during the holiday, mostly due to the influence of cold air.

New Year's Eve (21st) and the first day of the new year (22nd) will be the two days with the best weather in the north. From the second day to the fourth day in a row, there will be a strong continental cold air mass or cold air level southward. It is estimated that there will be another day before the holiday. The shareholder north monsoon affects the whole Taiwan.

The continuous rainfall situation is easy to rain in the northeast, and cloudy to sunny in the central and southern regions.

Zhang Cheng, a forecaster of the Central Meteorological Bureau, said that today (18th) the whole Taiwan was affected by the cold air mass from the mainland, and the northern part was colder than yesterday, with no more than 16 degrees all day, but tomorrow the temperature will rise briefly, and the high temperature will rise to more than 20 degrees.

Today, there will be partial short-term rain in the north and Yilan, and sporadic short-term rain in Huadong.

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The day after tomorrow (20th), there will be another wave of northeast monsoon slightly strengthened on the eve of the day. The north and Yilan will become cooler, the temperature will drop by about 1 to 2 degrees, and there will be some short-term rains. Yilan and Hualien may have some heavy rains. The area is cloudy to sunny.

New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year may be the two days with the best weather in the north of the 10-day holiday. The temperature in the north and Yilan is above 20 degrees, but there may still be rain in the north of Taoyuan, cloudy to sunny in the south of Hsinchu, and cloudy to sunny in the south-central Pay attention to the large temperature difference between day and night.

On New Year's Eve, the low temperature in the western half of the night is about 15 degrees, and the rainfall on the first day of the new year in the north will be less than that on New Year's Eve, while the central and southern parts will remain cloudy to sunny.

However, the second, third, and fourth days of junior high school will be the coldest time of the 10-day holiday. Strong continental air-conditioning masses or cold currents will affect the whole of Taiwan, and the low temperature will bottom out in the early morning of the fourth day of junior high school.

It is estimated that the north of the middle part of the second to fourth day will drop by 8 degrees in the early morning at night, and the average low temperature in the north and central parts will be 11 to 13 degrees, and you will feel cold all day long; Note that the temperature difference between day and night is large; the low temperature in the south and Huadong is about 14 to 15 degrees.

The impact of the strong continental cold air mass or cold current on Taiwan may weaken on the fifth day of the lunar month, but the Meteorological Bureau reminds that there may be another northeast monsoon on the seventh and eighth day two days before the holiday, and continuous observation is required.