SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Last month ranked as the second warmest April on record in the nation, the weather agency said Friday. Data compiled by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) showed the average temperature last month was 13.8 C, the second highest for April since nationwide record-keeping began in 1973. It was 1.7 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s average temperature in the January-November period reached an all-time high of 14.4 degrees Celsius, making this year likely to be the warmest year ever, the state weather agency said Wednesday. The 11-month average temperature marks the highest since 1973 when the country beefed up weather observation networks [...]
SOKCHO, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The first snow of the season fell on a portion of Mount Seorak in the northeast of the country Tuesday, 15 days earlier than last year, park authorities said. Flakes began falling at about 10 a.m. around Jungcheong Shelter, 1,676 meters above sea level, according to the Seoraksan National [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The first frost of the season was observed in Seoul on Monday as unseasonably cold weather continued for most parts of the country in the morning, the state weather agency said. Morning lows ranged from minus 4 C to 5 C across the country, compared with Sunday’s minus 2.6 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Temperatures in Seoul sharply dropped to nearly 1 degree Celsius on Sunday, marking the coldest morning for mid-October in 64 years, the state weather agency said. The morning low in Seoul came to 1.3 C in the day, the lowest since Oct. 19, 1957, when the figure was minus [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Human-caused climate change has brought about extensive meteorological changes on the Korean Peninsula over the past century, making summers longer and winters hotter and shorter and increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and heavy downpours, a report said Sunday. The report from the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The state weather agency has introduced a vehicle that can be dispatched directly to disaster areas to ensure more accurate and detailed measurements of the local meteorological situation. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said that it is currently operating a mobile observation vehicle that was developed late last year [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of agricultural products have skyrocketed following 54 days of disastrous summer weather that brought severe monsoon rains as well as five typhoons across the Korean peninsula. Experts argue that this is just the beginning, warning that an unprecedented scale of climate change will sweep across South Korea. Hot [...]
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, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is expected to see warmer temperatures this summer compared with last year, with torrential downpours occurring intermittently, the national weather agency said Friday. The average temperature in the June-August period was forecast to be 0.5 to 1 degree higher than last year’s average of 24.1 C, with [...]