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Meteor shower to provide romantic start to Chinese Valentine’s Day (2013/08/12)

A meteor shower scheduled to peak over the next two to four hours will offer a romantic start to this year’s Chinese Valentine’s Day. Most of northern and central Taiwan will have relatively clear skies for watching the event, though it will remain hot in part due to the effects of a typhoon passing through the South China Sea.

Despite its location far to the south of Taiwan, Typhoon Utor is causing a downward movement of air directly over Taipei. This led to especially hot conditions today, which will continue tomorrow. The typhoon’s effects will ease as it moves westward, though forecasters say poor weather is likely starting from Wednesday. Whether , weather , wither

Tsai Yao-de
CWB Forecaster
This low pressure system in the South China Sea will gradually move north, coming into the vicinity of Taiwan. There is a good chance of showers or thunderstorms in the south and southeast.

The clear skies tonight and tomorrow will be good for those celebrating Chinese Valentine’s Day on Tuesday. Couples are in luck this year because the holiday coincides with a meteor shower.

HsuI-hung
TaipeiAstronomicalMuseum
The radiant of this year's meteor shower will appear just after the moon wanes, lowering the effect of moonlight on the shower.
astronomy / astrology
The Taipei Astronomical Museum predicts the shower will peak from 2 to 4 am Tuesday, with upwards of 100 meteors per hour lighting up the sky. It will be a romantic start to this year’s

七夕流星雨

明天七夕情人節，正好碰上英仙座流星雨的極大期，北市天文館預告，凌晨2點到4點，是流星最多的時間，每小時至少會出現上百顆流星，而週一週二，北部地區，受到尤特颱風的下沉氣流影響，仍是會出現高溫。

因為南邊尤特颱風的關係，下沉氣流不偏不倚正好在北市上空，使得北部這兩天氣溫將會非常熱。不過尤特颱風週二會逐漸西偏，遠離台灣，但週三之後，接下來5天，全台天氣會較不穩定。

[[中央氣象局預報員 蔡耀德]]
“在南海這個低壓帶，會逐漸北抬到台灣附近，到時候在南部地區，以及東南部地區，下陣雨或雷雨的機會，都會相當的大”

不過這兩天的好天氣，對要過七夕情人節的民眾是個好消息，而且正好碰上流星雨，算是相當幸運!

[[北市天文館組長 徐毅宏]]
“今年的流星雨，它的輻射點起來的時間，剛好是月亮下去之後，那這樣子的話，月亮的月光相對的影響，就比較少”

天文館表示，流星最多的時間點，落在13號的凌晨2點到4點間，每小時會出現100顆，整個星空的盛況，絕對能滿足民眾，想看流星，體驗浪漫的願望。