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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject: Re: The hottest weather I remember in korea. |
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its burning up out there!!
Really, I've been here 4 years and this is the hottest I remember. steaming!
Wettest i remember was august 2003, rained solid for about 3 weeks.. Coldest, february 2002.
Long timers: would U agree? |
I remember the summer of 2002 being quite a wet one, with Yongsan flooding and the Han generally pushing its luck all about Seoul.
February, 2003 was pretty damned cold, but then so was January/February, 2004. Ah hell, every February has been cold since I've been here. (2004 seems especially cold in my memory b/c my boiler went kaput during the coldest snap of the winter). |
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numazawa
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: The Concrete Barnyard
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
 I'd always assumed you arrived here much more... that you'd only been in Korea for... that... that... (Okay, what's the PC term for "very enlightened newbie"?  )
But no, I was all wrong! By God, we're fellow veterans of the '94 Undressed Rehearsal for Global Warming!
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MUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-HA-ha-HA!!
Caught you, didn't I! So, Herr Guru, we meet again --er, met before!.. uh, could've met at any time! Take that!
Actually, no, I wasn't here for a rather large chunk of that time. Left after two years, did Japan, did time (no, not prison, Canada), came back last year. So, if it's possible to renew the cherry on one's sun-dae, so to speak, all is new again in the Land of the Mourned Calm.
But please don't ask me for a motive. |
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I'm a relative newbie (1 year), so this brutal humidity is new to me. My question is....How long does this generally last? Should we be past the worst by mid-August or can this kind of heat go right into September? I'm just curious about what you "old timers" have experienced in the past. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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long timers some one call??? the hotest was ...1994 May June July, it did not rain for more than 3 months, and it was still so wet, it was the hotest in like 50 years, and I mean HOT ...I was incheon at the time and I have to check my 94 diary for the exact dates but it started rained soot one day ...pollution and heat and wetness it was ...well like hell ..this was my first 3 months in Korea ever, so you can imagine i was like OMG what have I got my self into.... I was getting like 1,000,000 won per month then and no accomodation...  |
That's the one that is forever etched into the souls of all of us who survived it, the one that every subsequent "bad" summer is measured against. My situation wasn't much better than yours from the sound of it.
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Perhaps this is why I keep going, "Really? You think it's that hot? Hmmm.... doesn't seem that bad to me."
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Doogie wrote: |
| Well, I'm a relative newbie (1 year), so this brutal humidity is new to me. My question is....How long does this generally last? Should we be past the worst by mid-August or can this kind of heat go right into September? I'm just curious about what you "old timers" have experienced in the past. |
Sometimes even into early October.
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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| EFLtrainer wrote: |
| Doogie wrote: |
| Well, I'm a relative newbie (1 year), so this brutal humidity is new to me. My question is....How long does this generally last? Should we be past the worst by mid-August or can this kind of heat go right into September? I'm just curious about what you "old timers" have experienced in the past. |
Sometimes even into early October.
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Yikes!!! |
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snowy32
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
Location: NZ
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I'm a relative newbie (1 year), so this brutal humidity is new to me. My question is....How long does this generally last? Should we be past the worst by mid-August or can this kind of heat go right into September? I'm just curious about what you "old timers" have experienced in the past. |
On Arirang news last week (my hotel only had 3 channels) they were saying that this heatwave will last another two weeks at this sort of level and then it will ease off but will still be much hotter in September than usual, due to the late arrival of the heat. |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| snowy32 wrote: |
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| Well, I'm a relative newbie (1 year), so this brutal humidity is new to me. My question is....How long does this generally last? Should we be past the worst by mid-August or can this kind of heat go right into September? I'm just curious about what you "old timers" have experienced in the past. |
On Arirang news last week (my hotel only had 3 channels) they were saying that this heatwave will last another two weeks at this sort of level and then it will ease off but will still be much hotter in September than usual, due to the late arrival of the heat. |
Yes, but there's a thread running elsewhere on this site about how, according to ye olde lunar calendar, autumn technically started some days ago. Could've fooled me. I've been in heat and having hot flashes for the last week. And I'm a male. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, Summer of '94 was MUCH worse than this one. It broke all heat records since they'd been keeping them. I'm not dissing this one--misery is misery--but '94 was worse. |
So did you get a dehumidifier or an A/C? You had to've gotten one by now, there's no way you're managing with just a fan this past week.
There's one room in my home that I've recently christened "The Sweat Lodge". Just one day after that brief but heavy downpour we received, the temperature in there was 32 degrees at one o'clock in the morning with all the windows & a door open and a big fan blowing. |
Fan blowing on me now and about to bring fan #2 in for the big sleep. I hate heat, but I'm a pimp in this bizness. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:05 am Post subject: |
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So did you get a dehumidifier or an A/C? You had to've gotten one by now, there's no way you're managing with just a fan this past week.
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Well, let me tell you...
I did the smart thing. I called JH, my Korean friend whose brother-in-law works for Winnis, and asked him about ordering the dehumifier online. He said, "Whoa, Yata! I'll call my BIL and get right back to you." And he did. But I wasn't clear what the message was except for 'be home until [by] 1:00 on Monday'.
I was, and in came JH and BIL with an air con. Used, mind you, but an air con. BIL had decided that a dehumidifier wasn't 'useful' now that the rainy season is over. He brought a 5 pyoung air con and installed it in my bedroom. It works great. My bedroom is cool and the air in the rest of the apt is a couple of degrees cooler and about 10,000% less humidity.
So I've been sleeping like a baby all week. And my bank account was also happy. W190,000. (Plus a dinner for JH and BIL and what I chose to pay for his installation work.)
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I remember going into the hakwon office and begging for an air con in '94. The boss tried to get them, but none were to be had anywhere in the whole country. We were stuck in those little box rooms teaching 25 adults sitting cheek to jowl and everyone dripping sweat and having their Interchange book pages stick together. Writing on soggy paper.
We'd finish up at 9 and head out to Bodyguard where Ms Choi, the ex-model, had an air con. She liked us (actually me! but I'm being humble) and she would re-direct all the fans in the place in our direction to get what cool air we could. Home around midnight to try to sleep in a shoebox with no cross ventilation and get up at 5:30 to do it again.
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To the guy asking how long this will last: Pray for a typhoon. It might help. Otherwise, it will begin drying out in a couple of weeks--still hot, but somewhat drier. By mid-September it should break altogether and we'll have warm days and cool nights. By the third week of Sept. you'll probably want a long-sleeve shirt at night. Probably won't be building a fire down by Kapcheon on Sept. 15, but it won't be long after that. |
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