Archive for the ‘ Weather and climate ’ Category
It hit me like blanket as I exited Incheon International airport upon my recent reentry of Korea: it was real humidity, not the sort of thing the weather girl goes on and on about on the local news at home. Summers in Korea are really damp. The air is thick, hot and sticky. It’s the beginning of [ READ MORE ]
It snowed on Wednesday. It was baking on Saturday. It has been lashing since. Almost the same latitude as North Africa, ey? Whatever they told you about Korean weather is a lie! [ READ MORE ]
Good evening from the unseasonably warm Gwangju, South Korea. It’s currently 11 degrees Celsius and I just heard a little bit of thunder. There will be no more complaints about the brutal winters here, it would seem. Our Irish correspondent should be happy. Yet, I didn’t come ’round here for idle chit-chat, but to let [ READ MORE ]
Just so nobody suffers under the illusion that Korea is a warm, or even pleasant country in the winter, I bring you this barrage of snow we’ve had in the last two days here in Gwangju (the southern part of the country). In Korea, while it does snow regularly enough and you do get the occasional [ READ MORE ]