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berrieh · Joined: 10 Feb 2009

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OBwannabe · Joined: 16 Feb 2008

Not going to lie to you, I'm Canadian like your friend. With that aside, I've been to Florida in the summer and I would liken it to Seoul, but Seoul is a bit cooler yet more humid. Remember that they have monsoon season here so it rains for the most part of a month or more. So 100% humidity.
It's the humidity that really kills. Sweaty!!!

It doesn't usually go over 31 degrees celcius(92F?)So it's easily hotter in Florida.

Winter can be a bit cold. Even if you are from Canada. Minus the extremes from time to time you get in Toronto, the daily high is often not much diffent from Toronto to Seoul. It will be cold for you, but you won't die. It will just make you stronger Wink

Defo dry in the winter though. Invest in a humidifier.

KoreaninKorea · Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Location: Incheon

I'm from Michigan and I don't think the weather is that bad. Michigan gets a lot more snow and a lot colder than Korea in the winter. The summers aren't as muggy as Michigan. I would say that they have a thinner ozone though. I seem to burn up real quickly on the beaches.

As for you, it might be pretty bad. The problems come with using the subways and buses. It might get cold in Michigan but I only have to stand it for a little while. I would just hop into my car and warm up. In Korea I'm always walking around or waiting for transportation. This causes me to freeze my butt off. I have the same problem in the summer. Michigan can get hotter and muggier, but I can find relief. In Korea you use the subway full of sweaty people and the bodies add to the heat.

Even though Korea has four seasons, I think there idea of spring and fall to be very weak. They tend to only last a month. I think you'll do okay with the summer, but you'll have problems with the winter. I would say that people from the north east will have the least amount of problems with the weather.

berrieh · Joined: 10 Feb 2009

So if spring and fall tend to only last a month, is winter longer or summer, or about the same? How many months of really cold weather are there?

It's not that it never gets cold in Florida (we had a 3-day freeze just a few weeks ago, and it was getting to around 17 degrees at night where I live) - it's just that it only stays cold for a few days or a week at a time.

My biggest worry is going to be finding appropriate clothes; I cannot really find them at home, particularly not between now and August, and I've heard that clothes shopping can be difficult in Korea (though I am small - 5'4'' and a size 2 US - so perhaps I'll get lucky). I have a warm coat but nothing in the way of layers except for pajamas.

Any suggestions on winter essentials to begin gathering? I ought to start now, as it'll be nearly impossible in the hot Florida summer.

OBwannabe · Joined: 16 Feb 2008

you really only get cold days for about 3 months of the year.

So you are a woman. THis should be a shopping paradise for you. Especially if you are size 2. Stop worrying and look forward to arriving.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

The cherry blossom festivals start on April 1. It's still chilly at night and you still wear long sleeves in the day. May is fine and by the end of it, you are wearing short sleeves. The first two weeks of June are like May.

Around the third week of June the nights start staying warm like the days and you take the blanket off your bed. The drizzle starts and then the down-pours come. Everything gets wet and stays damp. This lasts up to 6 weeks.

Late July the clouds go away and the sun comes out, but the humidity stays. You'll like late July and August.

Mid-September, the air dries up but it stays warm in the day but the nights get chilly. You put your blanket back on the bed and start wearing long sleeve shirts. It will be like that till the week before Halloween but by then you'll be wearing a jacket.

By November you'll be wearing your winter coat and there can be snow. December, January, February and some of March will be the same. It's cold.

MattAwesome · Joined: 30 Jun 2008

wesharris · Joined: 10 Oct 2008

It's like Alabama weather doc.
Alabama Weather.
It's like Alabama weather.
Alabama Weather.
Just remember.
it's like
Alabama Weather.

_+_
Wes

XAdamX · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject:

I'm from Florida and I'm fine. I wear a jacket and my problems are solved.

Straphanger · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: Chilgok, Korea

You must be high.

Do you own a globe? Check that. Can you check the latitude of where you are vs where you're gonna be? Then watch the weather channel? Jesus. It's Michigan without the lakes.

Don't be a moron.

Pwillig · Joined: 26 Jan 2009

wesharris · Joined: 10 Oct 2008

I say it's like Alabama weather .
OP
It's like alabama weather man.
Alabama Weather.
Just remember.
Alabama Weather.
Alabama Weather.
Alabama Weather.
James Span just doesn't understand.
Alabama Weather.
_+_
Wes

crossmr · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul

runthegauntlet · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Location: the southlands.

No_hite_pls · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject:

Seoul's temperatures are much like New York City, pleasant mid-March to
early June and then again in September threw mid November. It is very dry most of the year except July and August. The humidity is higher than Florida only in the months of July and August. The summer temps are not that hot just very humid.

Gwangju temperatures are like Washington DC. and Busan's are like North Carolina.

Busan has the warmest weather in Korea besides Jeju island.

If you don't like the cold go to Busan.