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[sojusucks]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/06/113_88653.html

[Weigookin74]

CRAP!!! Thought this would have started later. I had no prior warning of this. Grrrrrr!!!!! I hoped to have a couple of weeks more being outdoors!!!!!

[Louis VI]

Let's be clear. There is no one rainy season in South Korea. There are two distinct rainy seasons in the summertime.

The first is called the Monsoon season and it has hit in the middle of June every year for the last decade I've been here, from the S, SW. A lot of rain without much wind, until the middle of July, coming from the Indian Ocean originally.

Then there will a few weeks of relative dry, normal summer weather at the end of July, beginning of August (when big companies like Daewoo and Samsung give their employees a week off), followed in the second week of August by the Typhoon season until the middle of September, though many years these windy storms are mild as they come from the S, SE, from the South Pacific originally, but turn away from the peninsula early a lot.

I know this because I spend a lot of time hiking and camping outdoors in the summer and have been following metereological info since 2002 and the satellite images and wind patterns are clear when looked at longitudinally. It ain't rocket science, but Korean news sure obfuscates weather.

[Chalmers]

what news article will you repost next?

[Draz]

Suhweet! Gotta say that the weather has been reeeeeally tolerable so far this summer. Previous years I remember being miserable around this time, so having the rainy season starting already without many of those unbearably humid and sunny days is fantastic.