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vox · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: Jeollabukdo

Has me really messed up...
I hit the sack at 8pm yesterday now I'm up at 4:30am and I'm going to go hiking our nearby mountain and take pictures of the sunrise before school.

It seems we suddenly went from really humid to really dry. I love the cooler weather, but I don't think I can make 8pm-4:30am a lifestyle change. Maybe it depends how the hike goes this morning.

Anyone else love Korea in the fall? I know it's not officially the fall, but it's here.

Clutch Cargo · Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Location: Sim City 2005

It has been officially fall for the last few weeks at least, I think. This is much more civilised weather. Feel better, sleep better etc.

vox · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: Jeollabukdo

Gwangjuboy · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England

It's still quite hot in the afternoon though. Yesterday evening wasn't exactly on the cool side either.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject:

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

I was freezing last night! Put on two layers of clothes to go out after dark, and threw another blanket on the bed...er...yo.

semphoon · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: Where Nowon is

I love it. I like walking but not sweating. I can sleep at night without waking up in a pool of sweat. Fall is my favorite season in Korea.

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

Hanson · Joined: 20 Oct 2004

I remember when I first got here, some Korean friends told me that no one swims outdoors after September first. At first, I thought this was a stupid arbitrary date to stop swimming outdoors, but each and every year since, I've noticed a drastic change in the weather in the first week of September, and this year is no exception.

I'll take this cooler weather over the nasty humid stickiness of summer any day, even if it usually induces sniffles, a sore throat and a cold.

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

Yes, this is unseasonably cool and is so far the coldest september start in the last 30 years.....temps have so far been a good 4 or 5 degrees below average throughout the peninsula...

Don't know if this is just a cool spell or whether winter is going to come really early this year(I hope not).....

vox · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: Jeollabukdo

Absolutely the best weather for kimchi jige. It could even have a light dusting of snow and it would still be perfect. This is kimchi jige weather. Yum.

kermo · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

My Korean friends keep talking about the change in the weather, and how it causes their children to catch cold or fall ill. I've never heard that in other countries. How about you guys? Are you all suddenly sniffly?

Come to think of it, I was sneezing up a storm this morning, but I think it's just because of the dust that has gathered on my fall wardrobe.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject:

The weather has been unusual in fact.

Statistically, the entire month of September experiences daily highs of 25.8 C on average and 19.0 as daily/nightly lows on average.

That's summer weather, though milder and indeed less humid than the other summer months in Korea.

Septembers are warmer than Junes in Korea, both in terms of lows and highs: warmer. If June is a summer month then September is, regardless of what Koreans think their seasons are.

http://app.nea.gov.sg/cms/htdocs/article.asp?pid=1104

I still sleep with my windows wide open, here in the southernmost region of the peninsula.

krats1976 · Joined: 14 May 2003