Highest temperature in Taipei on August 1?

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Market context

The relevant real-world event is the highest daytime temperature recorded at Taipei Songshan Airport on 1 August 2026, with the market resolving from the Weather Underground daily history page for RCSS. In practical terms, that means traders are not pricing a city-wide “feels like” number, but the single maximum station reading that appears by the end of the day UTC window used for settlement.

A 0% crowd-implied chance for one outcome is best read as a liquidity signal rather than a true forecast of impossible weather. Taipei is climatologically hot and humid in August, with typical daily highs around 32–34°C and forecasts this month clustering in the mid-30s Celsius, while historical August records can reach the high 30s; that makes outcomes in the low-to-mid 30s materially more plausible than an outlier or very cool reading.[1][2][3][10] Recent market pricing on a similar Taipei August 1 contract also showed the crowd concentrating around 36–37°C, which is consistent with late-summer subtropical conditions rather than a freeze in probabilities.[4]

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