Highest temperature in Taipei on August 10?

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Market context

The payout depends on the **highest temperature actually logged at Taipei Songshan Airport** on 10 August, not the headline daily high, so the practical task is to watch the station’s intraday observations and the first next-day datapoint that closes the resolution window. For a programmatic workflow, that means polling the Weather Underground Daily Observations table, normalising the Celsius values, and mapping the day’s maximum into the market’s outcome bands rather than relying on forecast widgets or summary pages.

Historically, Taipei in August is hot, humid, and often close to the low-to-mid 30s Celsius, with long-run averages around 32.5–33°C and record highs near 38°C, so the market should usually cluster around the upper-20s to mid-30s outcomes rather than the extremes.[2][3][17] Current forecast pages point to a high in the low-to-mid 30s for 10 August, with showery or overcast conditions and elevated humidity, which supports some ceiling on the upside even if brief solar heating lifts the station peak above the daytime forecast high.[1][5][6][11]

For traders using bots, the main catalysts are the morning build-up, any early-afternoon convective burst, and whether precipitation arrives before the day’s maximum is printed, since a short clear window can still push the station reading higher than the forecast headline. The resolution rule also matters operationally: revisions are accepted only until the first datapoint for the following date appears, so automated monitors should watch for late edits and avoid assuming the first published daily high is final.[8]

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Methodology

This page reviews Highest temperature in Taipei on August 10? across five venues. The live probability is the Polymarket mid-price, sourced directly from the on-chain Polygon order book; the comparison columns benchmark each venue on fee structure, KYC, settlement currency and payment rails. Every CTA routes to Polymarket Bot UK, which mirrors the Polymarket order book at 0% fees.

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