Heat wave to get more severe, weather agency says
A construction worker drinks ice water to cool off in front of a construction site in the southwestern city of Gwangju, July 2. Yonhap
The heat wave gripping the country will become even more severe, beginning this week, pushing up the daily maximum temperature to 37 degress Celsius in some regions, the state weather agency said Monday.
Seoul and almost all parts of the nation have been put under a heat wave advisory or warning over the past week, due to the influx of hot and humid air from the southwest.
Amid the weeklong tropical nights nationwide, in which nighttime temperatures stay above 25 degrees, Gangneung, an east coast city, experienced the so-called "super tropical" night Sunday with the temperature dropping to only 30.8 degrees overnight, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA).
It will be recorded as the lowest daily temperature for July in Gangneung, whose previous record was 30.4 degrees observed only four days earlier, the KMA noted.
The agency said the daily high will reach 37 degrees in the southeastern city of Daegu on Monday, while daytime temperatures will be 32 degrees in Seoul and Busan, 34 degrees in Daejeon, and 35 degrees in Gwangju.