Beneath a strengthening Pacific high-pressure dome, Taiwan finds itself caught in the slow, relentless logic of summer heat — nine cities and counties placed under yellow alerts as temperatures climb toward 36°C, a threshold that marks not merely discomfort but genuine risk. The Central Weather Administration's warnings, stretching from Taipei in the north to Pingtung in the south, reflect a familiar seasonal reckoning: the island's geography offering little shelter from the sun's midday intensity. Far to the east, Tropical Storm Dolphin stirs in the Pacific, but at more than five thousand kil