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[ovid]

Please... let this be the end of the summer!!

[kardisa]

I've only been here for a couple of months and have no idea what fall in Korea is like, but I'm confident that it will be an improvement over the hot, sticky hell that is summer.

Seriously, I hate cold weather but I've spent the past month praying for 0 degree days and lots of snow. At least it's easy to throw on an extra layer or two if I'm cold. There's only so much I can take off if it's boiling outside.

[balzor]

[balzor]

[Louis VI]

#1. Summer isn't over until the 21st/22nd of September (the equinox).

#2. September is hotter than June here (the month's average highs 27 C, lows 21 C, compared to 25 and 19).

#3. Koreans arbitrarily choose September 1st to begin fall and vacate the beaches even though the temps hit 30 C still. It makes no sense that they choose a solar calendar date pre-equinox; if they used the lunar calendar date, that would make some sense, but they use simple convention and treat it as iron law. So students are overdressed now and suffer in the heat. It's 29 C (feels like 33 C according to msn weather) today. That's summer weather.

[Italy37612]

[balzor]

[ticktocktocktick]

All this talk of autumn is silliness. Korea has only two seasons, hot and cold.