Here the air temperature dropped below 10 degrees below zero. On Thursday, February 1, on the highest mountain of Taiwan dropped to ten centimeters of fresh snow.
Such snowfalls have not been for two years already. Bad weather already killed 53 people. As Taiwan News, weather forecasters warn that the air temperature will continue to decline in the future. The greatest cold is expected between Saturday and Tuesday. Also these days in a number of regions snowfalls are expected.
Local authorities warn that the death toll may be large. In turn, the director of resuscitation Taipei Medical University, Kao Wei-feng reported that 95 percent of sudden deaths caused by cold weather, are associated with heart disease. Cold temperatures increase the likelihood of high blood pressure, myocardial infarction and heart failure.
Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in early January in the United States of America because of severe frost killed 26 people.