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The meteorologist who appropriately forecast summer time warmth waves exceeding 40 levels Celsius this 12 months, has now warned of utmost chilly snaps sweeping the nation within the upcoming winter.
Kim Hae-dong, a professor of environmental engineering at Keimyung College, stated in a radio interview with CBS on Monday that “this winter can be very chilly, much like the winter of 2021 and 2022 when the temperature fell under minus 18 levels Celsius.”
Kim added that as Korea enters winter, La Nina situations will doubtless seem, bringing a extreme arctic chilly wave to each Korea and North America. La Nina is a climate sample ensuing from unusually chilly ocean temperatures within the Pacific, in comparison with El Nino, which is characterised by unusually heat ocean temperatures.
He additionally predicted that this 12 months’s fall season can be quick in period, persevering with a development noticed over the past decade. “If you happen to have a look at the final 10 years or so, autumn has been largely disappearing,” he stated. “I don’t assume we can see a lot of autumn this 12 months.”
Final 12 months, the daytime temperature reached 29 C nicely into mid-November, solely to all of a sudden drop greater than 20 C the following day, he stated. “This 12 months will doubtless be the identical.”
Whereas many have been relieved by the latest temperature drop, the professor believes the warmth will persist for just a little longer. “Persons are very completely happy by the cooler climate, pondering fall has arrived, however beginning tomorrow, temperatures will once more method 30 C,” stated Kim. “I feel the warmth will persist till a minimum of early November, after which suddenly the chilly climate will arrive.”
