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Cold weather hits nation
A bundled-up girl walks in a Seoul street, Tuesday morning. A cold spell that hit Korea is expected to continue this week. / Yonhap
By Kim Se-jeong
By Kim Se-jeong
The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) issued its first cold weather advisory of the season Tuesday, saying it expected temperatures to drop drastically this week.
According to the weather agency, Wednesday morning will be the chilliest Seoul has experienced this autumn. The temperature is forecast to plunge to 8 degrees Celsius, 10 degrees lower than Monday morning.
On Tuesday morning, the lowest temperature in Seoul was 9 degrees.
A cold weather advisory is issued when temperatures drop more than 10 degrees from the previous day or the morning low falls below 3 degrees.
The morning low may fall to 10 degrees on Wednesday in Incheon, the KMA said, as compared with 8 degrees in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province; 5 degrees in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province; 2 degrees in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province; 9 degrees in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province; 10 degrees in Daegu; 12 degrees in Busan; and 13 degrees on Jeju Island.
In Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, the temperature was 1.6 degrees below zero Tuesday, with ice and frost appearing for the first time since April.
“Typhoon Vongfong recently brought warm air, but cold air from the north is now blanketing the peninsula,” a KMA spokesman said.
He added that temperatures could drop further after Thursday, when forecasters expect rain.
Korea has seen unusual weather patterns for the past several days.
Vongfong marked the sixth typhoon to have ever affected the peninsula in October for as long as records have been kept.
The typhoon brought strong winds that destroyed traffic signs and windows in some cities. In Ulsan, a 30-meter-long concrete wall collapsed onto a sidewalk, but no one was injured. In Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, the wind speed peaked at 116 kilometers per hour.