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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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 Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:48 am Post subject: Summer Solstice |
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| Happy summer solstice everyone! You can comfort yourself with the idea that days are getting shorter now and winter is coming. |
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plokiju
Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| The days may start to get shorter but the temperature is going to keep rising isn't it? My thermostat read 32 degrees right now and it's 10:30pm and all I have is a fan. I'm scared. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:50 am Post subject: |
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32 degrees is when water freezes. It sounds like you need a new thermometer. 
Isn't there a pagan ritual associated with the equinox? |
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plokiju
Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:28 am Post subject: |
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As long as the ice doesn't melt, I just might make it but if the water ever boils, I won't survive.
That sounds so cryptic. I hope it makes sense. |
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:47 am Post subject: |
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| dulouz wrote: |
32 degrees is when water freezes. It sounds like you need a new thermometer.
Isn't there a pagan ritual associated with the equinox? |
Some civilised nations use a sensible metric system rather than an outdated silly system. Farhenheit is for morons, bring on the logic and practicality of Celsius for everday life.
Water freezes at around zero and boils at around 100 depending on your altitude, logical and simple. Some people maybe simple but it doesn't mean they're logical.
'Pagan' types have rituals for all sort of things and many Christian types have also adapted pagan ideas. e.g the 'harvest festival'.
On another note, much more important here! Monsoon season is around the corner so make sure you have a sturdy and working brolly (umbrella) and if down south you might want to think about buying a dinghy  |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| plokiju wrote: |
| The days may start to get shorter but the temperature is going to keep rising isn't it? My thermostat read 32 degrees right now and it's 10:30pm and all I have is a fan. I'm scared. |
Say it with me: "Tropical Nights!"
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pollyplummer
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
Location: McMinnvillve, Oregon
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| keithinkorea wrote: |
On another note, much more important here! Monsoon season is around the corner so make sure you have a sturdy and working brolly (umbrella) and if down south you might want to think about buying a dinghy |
Tell me about monsoon season, please. When does it rain? For how long? Does it ever rain all day? Does that mean that the temperature is cooler throughout the day? I'm really bad with science, so help me out here. I've never been here for this season. Are there in fact torrential downpours that break umbrellas? What is the weather going to be like, say two weeks from now on the East coast of Korea during my vacation? No sunny beach?  How long does the rainy season last? |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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| pollyplummer wrote: |
| keithinkorea wrote: |
On another note, much more important here! Monsoon season is around the corner so make sure you have a sturdy and working brolly (umbrella) and if down south you might want to think about buying a dinghy |
Tell me about monsoon season, please. When does it rain? For how long? Does it ever rain all day? Does that mean that the temperature is cooler throughout the day? I'm really bad with science, so help me out here. I've never been here for this season. Are there in fact torrential downpours that break umbrellas? What is the weather going to be like, say two weeks from now on the East coast of Korea during my vacation? No sunny beach? How long does the rainy season last? |
Fresh meat for the Korean Rain Gods... 
I still remember my last summer in korea when it rained for two weeks straight... |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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How long does the rainy season last?
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You are in for a delightful 6 weeks (approximately) of drizzle alternating with downpours with the occassional sunny day thrown in just to tease you. That's to say nothing of the typhoons that start about the same time. Days and nights are relatively different right now, with the nights cooling off. As the rainy season progresses the difference in temperature between day and night will narrow. By late July (probably before) nights will be as sweltering as the days. You may as well store your socks away now. Go out and buy some sandals or plastic shoes. Your feet are going to be wet 24/7 from now on. Get ready for everything to mildew. Everything. It is not unusual for one or two ESLers to wake up covered in black mold because it grows so fast. They have to be hospitalized for industrial strength removal. If you live in a low-lying area watch out for flash floods. Don't stand near curbs--you'll get drenched by passing buses. Your books will swell up and you will stick to any piece of paper you touch.
Have a nice day. |
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thorin
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| pollyplummer wrote: |
| keithinkorea wrote: |
On another note, much more important here! Monsoon season is around the corner so make sure you have a sturdy and working brolly (umbrella) and if down south you might want to think about buying a dinghy |
Tell me about monsoon season, please. When does it rain? For how long? Does it ever rain all day? Does that mean that the temperature is cooler throughout the day? I'm really bad with science, so help me out here. I've never been here for this season. Are there in fact torrential downpours that break umbrellas? What is the weather going to be like, say two weeks from now on the East coast of Korea during my vacation? No sunny beach? How long does the rainy season last? |
Everyone who has been here a for the rainy season have experienced many hideous rain-humidity issues. Yes, I have had an umbrella break under the onslaught of a particularly vicious downpour, it was one of those ones that fold down really small which are much flimsier than the big one piece ones.
Six weeks is about the average of this hideous experience, it is humid as hell and I usually have to change my work clothes a minimum of twice a day, washing takes ages to dry properly due to the humidity at home I just around in a pair of short and nothing else to minimise laundry duties.
It rains most days, some days aren't to bad except for the humidity but out of the blue it can go from a mild shower to heavy downpours that will soak you even with an umbrella! I remember walking to work last year and between the subway stations it started hammering down, the downpour was of such force that the splashes in the 50mm puddles I was trudging through soaked me up to my hips, a nasty sticky day at work was ahead of me!
It doesn't feel any cooler than it is now due to the extreme humidity. Monsoon sucks arse. The monsoon season is also dangerous, dozens of people usually die each year in flash floods, landslides and washed away cars. Korea usually has few vicious tyhoons hit each year that cause chaos, destruction and even sometimes death. Be careful. |
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pollyplummer
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
Location: McMinnvillve, Oregon
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| WOW. You make it sound quite scary. So what about the beaches on the east coast, particularly from July 7th through the 10th... will it be rainy by then? Will there be no sun for my vacation? Will I be in danger of a typhoon? |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:46 am Post subject: |
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For the humidity you'll need hippo suckers. You may have seen them in the marts. One brand has a pink hippo sucking a drink through a straw. Little plastic tubs that contain dessicant; air mosture goes in, doesn't come out, and collects filling up the tub. Put them around your pad and mildew/mold doesn't have a kickbutt environment to thrive. As it normally would. My first year my roomate opened his clothesdrawer to find his leather jacket, usually brown, was yellow with mold. Mold has a leather fetish.
Yah hippo suckers! |
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pegpig
Joined: 10 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| pollyplummer wrote: |
| WOW. You make it sound quite scary. So what about the beaches on the east coast, particularly from July 7th through the 10th... will it be rainy by then? Will there be no sun for my vacation? Will I be in danger of a typhoon? |
7th to the 10th?!?! Good gawd woman, that's the worst time. Especially the beaches on the East coast.
Thought I'd join in on the exaggerations. Wow.
It doesn't rain everyday. There are heavy rains some days during the 6 weeks. Rains that kill your umbrella? Aigo. The winds? Yes. The rain? Argh. I often do have to change my socks when I get to work.
I'd say there's as good a chance of getting rained on as getting sunned on, on any given day during this period. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| I have really noticed the days getting longer. The back of winter has been broken and we are in the earliest of spring now. Soon the Ajumahs will be picking green sprouts off out of fields for are Twae-jung chigaes. Umm.. Yummy.... |
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