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pharflung · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

Sure was a beautiful day in southern South Korea. Sunny, warm, sky clear as a bell, at least by Korean standards.

I wonder if typhoon Man-yi had anything to do with clearing the air here?

It turns out it passed due south of the peninsula.

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200704.html

I wonder if we should be worried about typhoon/hurricanes down here, especially with these high-rise apartment buildings?

And while we are on the subject, the weather data/forecasts on wunderground seem a little far-fetched. No way it was only in the upper 70s today. According to wunderground.com, it is always in the 70s. Yeah, right.

What web source do you find most accurate for the weather here?

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normalcyispasse · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:45 am Post subject:

I use Weather Underground. From what I've found, it *is* the most reliable. AccuWeather, for instance, said that it rained all day (and that it is in fact raining right now); we've not had a drop of precipitation here since mid-Friday.

Flash Ipanema · Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Location: Seoul

I usually use Yahoo weather simply because Yahoo is my home page. Today it said the high was 77 and the current temp. was 86. (sorry, I still use Fahrenheit!)

Buff · Joined: 07 Apr 2004

Rained all day yesterday and last night. Windy as hell here in Pohang.

hogwonguy1979 · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den

yeah the nearby storm turned the wind to a different direction and sucked all the humidity out of the air. turned out to be quite nice. seen that happen in texas when a hurricane is making landfall say in central la. if its big enough it will turn the wind from the se to the sw really drying things out but making the temp soar as the wind comes off the mountains in northern mexico. same concept here, made it real nice. now that its well gone figure back to the hot muggy weather

for typhoon info i use the joint typhoon warning center, they had this one pegged from 4 days ago, why the korean weather people dont use their data is beyond me instead putting scare tactics in the newspaper. other info i use the kma homepage for current weather and radar and weather.com for longer range info

you people down south didnt get rain from the typhoon, it was the old monsoon front that actually forced the storm to turn so sharply to the east

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

It was very windy down in the deep south yesterday though...

Thought I was mary poppins for a little while....

Yesterday · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:05 am Post subject:

normalcyispasse · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:14 am Post subject:

Oh, for ACCURATE weather forecasts just ask an ajumma. They know the weather so well it's creepy.

pharflung · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

Several of you have remarked that accuweather or wunderground have gotten the weather precisely wrong for that day, and the next.

Is there any chance that the international dateline could be to blame?

Could the weather info be intended for people back in the States, and therefore be using U.S. dates? Afterall, they are American-based weather services.

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