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changmee · Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Location: Yongin, South Korea

What is the most accurate website for the weather forecast for Korea?

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan

Auntie.

tweeterdj · Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Location: Gwangju

I've been using MSN weather, but it's not very accurate. I only like it cause it's the only one I found that has any semlance of a forecast in it. Even if it's not all that accurate all the time.

denverdeath · Joined: 21 May 2005 Location: Boo-sahn

I usu go here:

http://weather.yahoo.com/regional/KSXX.html

Actually, I rarely go there; but if I feel the need, that's where I often go. What I usu do is stick my nose out the window in the morning and take things from there. Don't ask me why, but I usu check what the weather's like back home, while I'm here, more than I check what it's supposed to be like here.

VanIslander · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:18 am Post subject:

Nothing beats a good satellite image:

http://www.kweather.co.kr/now/sat/sat.html?sattype=RIR&satnow=MV

It's taken every half hour and you can see the movement over the last several hours in slow motion. I have found this quite valuable in determining when MY part of Korea (off the southeast coast) will get sunny skies.

I've learned a lot about cloud movement patterns over the peninsula in the last couple of years.

It explains why it's often sunny here and cloudy in Seoul, why the yellow sand storms don't affect here much at all and why Geoje doesn't get snow more than once a year if that.

Systems heading north often just touch the peninsula here at Geoje or Busan, then veer northeast, bringing warm sunny skies as the high temperature mass pushes the Asian mainland system up over the area. Similarly, summer typhoon/tropical storms/wet systems often touch here and not most of the peninsula. But of course sometimes the whole peninsula gets hit from the south or from the west. It's just there are often exceptions to this which makes the southeast weather different than the rest of the nation.