SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is likely to face another unusually hot summer this year, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), which on Thursday released its climate outlook for June through August. The agency forecast higher-than-average temperatures across the country, driven by global oceanic heat and high-pressure systems that could lock [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The temperature in Seoul exceeded 30 C for the first time this year Wednesday, hours after setting a new record for the highest daily minimum temperature for May, the state weather agency said. The mercury rose to as high as 30.8 C in the capital city, which was 6.2 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s average sea surface temperature reached an unprecedented high in 2024, surpassing the previous record set just a year earlier, according to data released by the National Institute of Fisheries Science (NIFS) on January 22. Research vessels recorded an annual average sea surface temperature of 18.74°C in South Korean [...]
BUSAN, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Institute of Fisheries Science announced on February 1 that last year marked the highest annual average sea surface temperature in South Korean waters since records began in 1990. Analysis of satellite data revealed an average sea surface temperature of 19.8 degrees Celsius last year, which is 0.6 degrees [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Tropical nights, during which the temperature stays above 25 degrees Celsius at night, are becoming more severe in Seoul and nearby areas, a study showed Sunday. A research team from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology analyzed daily low temperature data from 1979 to 2018, which showed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The size of high temperature areas in South Korea has more than doubled over the past nine years, international environmental organization Greenpeace said Thursday, calling for efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse defines any land locations where the average midday surface temperature exceeds 30 C in August as [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — If greenhouse gases are continuously emitted at the current level, average annual temperatures on the Korean Peninsula will rise by up to 7 C by 2100, pushing the people into a serious crisis, a government report warned Monday. The report published by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The average temperature in July was lower than in June for the first time this year in South Korea, meteorologists said Sunday, due to exceptionally high temperatures in the Arctic caused by global climate change. According to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), this year’s June was the hottest on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of days in January this year with the lowest morning temperature hovering above zero came to 11 in Seoul, the most in 31 years, due to weakened Siberian high pressure this winter, the weather authorities said Saturday. The Korea Meteorological Administration compared the figure to the three [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The year 2019 was the second-hottest year on record in South Korea, a government report said Thursday, bringing fresh attention to the effects of global warming. The report issued by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said the nation’s average annual temperature was 13.5 C, the second-highest figure since relevant [...]