Highest temperature in Taipei on July 31?

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Market context

Taipei is already in a hot spell, with the Central Weather Administration issuing an orange heat advisory and daytime temperatures topping 36°C for a third straight day on Friday. That matters for this market because the Wunderground settlement source is the highest temperature at Taipei Songshan Airport on 31 July, so an afternoon spike would be enough to move the outcome well above the usual July norm.[1][7]

Historically, Taipei’s July highs cluster around the low- to mid-30s Celsius, but the city has also produced far stronger extremes, including a 39.7°C reading in 2020 and a 38.3°C event reported in May this year. Those comparables show that a 0% crowd-implied probability for the higher temperature bands is only sensible if traders expect the day to stay near ordinary seasonal heat rather than repeat the recent above-normal pattern.[10][19][7]

The main catalysts are the afternoon temperature peak, any updated CWA heat advisories, and whether the hot spell persists through the airport station’s official observation window before the market closes at 12:00 UTC. With the day already running hot, the key dependency is whether cloud cover, sea-breeze influence, or thunderstorm outflow caps the maximum temperature before settlement; if not, the upper ranges become materially more plausible than the current pricing suggests.[1][4]

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FAQ

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