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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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 Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:53 am Post subject: IT AIN"T THAT SMALL; weather variations in korea |
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*yawn* it's after 4am this night in the middle of october and I have been awaken by the chilly need to close the window
unable to get back to sleep right away i check my emails and the weather and - sure enough - as i suspected it may be 11 C here but it's 17 C on Geoje island, on the other side of the same province! when I was on Geoje I NEVER had to close my windows in October or April but here on the peninsula in an inland valley I have to
a 6 degrees difference within a single province speaks to the variability of the weather in this country
sometimes posters talk about the weather as if it's all the same everywhere here and i can't relate to statements made about the weather at times
this may not be a big country but surely i'm not alone in noticing the fact that weather can be quite different not so far away |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Geoje's winter is excellent, i was able to go running in shorts all last winter and i was able to wear light coats with only a t-shirt on underneath when walking around the metropolis of gohyeon.(my kids gave out to me for wearing a t-shirt "teacher crazy, it's january" they were the same in april though, so they are just gone in the head...i did ask them if it was freezing cold in july would they wear a t-shirt and they said yes..."cos july is summer season")
last new years ever i was in seoul and i went for my long run along the han, it was so cold that i had to turn back after 13 miles cos i couldn't feel my hands or the left side of my face, i wasn''t able to click the button on my watch (i was wearing gloves, a thermal top, two t-shirts and 3 qtr length bottoms) cut to the next day and i was back in geoje running down the road leading from gohyeon to okpo and was able to do a 10 mile run with jts the thermal top and a pair of shorts, no t-shirt, and i felt hot doing it, i had to drop my gloves and pick them up on the way back to the apartment!! |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I've seen way worse in Alberta. A meter of snow in Calgary, a sunny day above zero in Edmonton (although usually in reverse). |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I've seen way worse in Alberta. A meter of snow in Calgary, a sunny day above zero in Edmonton (although usually in reverse). |
yeah I've made a parallel with that before:
the Chinooks of southern Alberta, bringing in warm windy systems from the Rockies, has seen 20 C differences within a 100 km, I having experienced it many times firsthand as an undergrad in Lethbridge wearing shorts to class in February while people literally freeze to death on the streets of Calgary
the Pacific systems which sweep up and clip Geoje before turning toward Japan often bring warmth in winter whereas most of the peninsula gets hit by cold fronts from central Asia |
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