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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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 Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject: How much more rain this month? |
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| It has been a rainy August. How much more rain can we get? |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| More please. I love the rain. |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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I can't wait for it to end, and for the weather to cool down too. I'm going to be very active in what I expect to be my last temperate season in Korea.
I particularly hate the rain. I have to arrange lifts to work because it's not worth taking the scooter out. Also I can't play football or go fishing
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| More please. I love the rain. |
Why? Are you an native English farmer, or something? |
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No_hite_pls
Joined: 05 Mar 2007
Location: Don't hate me because I'm right
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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The weather has been worse than horrible this month. Rain everyday, I want to get out and climb some mountains.
I can't wait until winter to do some climbing. I love hiking in winter. You never get too hot and Korean winters are so clear. |
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Redfish
Joined: 28 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Typhoon Bolaven will be in the E. China Sea Monday night...looks like little more rain in the forecast. |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Squire wrote: |
I can't wait for it to end, and for the weather to cool down too. I'm going to be very active in what I expect to be my last temperate season in Korea.
I particularly hate the rain. I have to arrange lifts to work because it's not worth taking the scooter out. Also I can't play football or go fishing
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| More please. I love the rain. |
Why? Are you an native English farmer, or something? |
New Zealander from a farming background. Pretty close. I like heavy rain, find it refreshing. Plus it cools this country down.
Either heavy rain or completely blue skies for me. Everything in between is a wasted opportunity. |
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3DR
Joined: 24 May 2009
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you guys in different parts of the country? Because here in Incheon it was pretty dry up until this week and last week. They were even talking about how dry it was. I was actually wondering where the rainy season had gone for most of August. |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| transmogrifier wrote: |
New Zealander from a farming background. Pretty close. I like heavy rain, find it refreshing. Plus it cools this country down.
Either heavy rain or completely blue skies for me. Everything in between is a wasted opportunity. |
Fair enough. The heavy rain has definitely cooled it down today, so I can't complain too much
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| Are you guys in different parts of the country? Because here in Incheon it was pretty dry up until this week and last week. They were even talking about how dry it was. I was actually wondering where the rainy season had gone for most of August. |
Actually down here it's been pretty dry up until this week. The forecast was heavy rain for the week or two before that though, so it was never worth making plans |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:26 am Post subject: |
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| Up until about a week and a half ago, it was quite sunny. The past couple of years (June through to September), it seemed to either be rainy and muggy or grey skies and muggy with the threat of rain. So, this I can endure. That said, if it rains beyond mid September through October, I'll be really angry. Autumn is the best time to get outdoors here. |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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What, did you all just arrive here? Compared to the "Summer" of 2011, this is a mere sprinkling! A good 6 weeks of non-stop rain (some interruptions of as much as an hour) and some of the worst flooding that Seoul had seen in a long time. Han river up 6 to 8 meters, completely covering the hump of lower Banpo Bridge.
This, now, is just a welcome interruption of the usually unbearable August weather. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| ...and some of the worst flooding that Seoul had seen in a long time. |
A long time being 2005? Or was it 2006? I know one of those two years, the Han swallowed up quite a bit more than just the lower Banpo's hump. |
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Lazio
Joined: 15 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:55 am Post subject: |
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What, did you all just arrive here? Compared to the "Summer" of 2011, this is a mere sprinkling! A good 6 weeks of non-stop rain (some interruptions of as much as an hour) and some of the worst flooding that Seoul had seen in a long time. Han river up 6 to 8 meters, completely covering the hump of lower Banpo Bridge.
This, now, is just a welcome interruption of the usually unbearable August weather. |
Agreed.
This year so far has been pleasantly good with no extremes except that 1 week period of 37 Celsius degrees. Spring was nice and FREE from yellow dust. No rain for 2 months (May-June) The monsoon was a bit late this year and was shorter than usually. Even that monsoon period was good: 1 day rain-blue sky and sunshine for 2 days � another rainy day- sunshine again. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| I hear there's supposed to be a massive monsoon hitting the area next week. |
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JustinC
Joined: 10 Mar 2012
Location: We Are The World!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| Lots more rain to come in the next week, further than that it's anyone's guess |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
| orosee wrote: |
| ...and some of the worst flooding that Seoul had seen in a long time. |
A long time being 2005? Or was it 2006? I know one of those two years, the Han swallowed up quite a bit more than just the lower Banpo's hump. |
Since 2008, actually. It just feels like a long time 
Just out of interest, what happens to the 740 bus that uses the lower part of the bridge, in case of severe floods? Will it just move to the top and skip a station or two, or what's the plan for that? |
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