Korea is looking at a couple of days of severe cold. With a cold high pressure front coming in from Siberia, look for Seoul to enjoy sub-zero temperature all day Friday, with Saturday recording possibly the coldest temperatures of the winter.
Moreover, with cloudy weather to extend until next weekend, dreaming of a "white Christmas" might be difficult this year.
The weather bureau predicts extremely chilly weather, with temperatures dropping precipitously from Thursday and Seoul experiencing a low of -7 degrees in the morning and a high of -3 degrees during the day. The bureau added that with winds blowing twice as hard as the day before, the wind chill factor will make this cold spell even more severe.
Friday temperatures are follows: Cheongju -6, Busan -2, Gwangju -3, Chuncheon -12. For Saturday, the weather bureau predicts the coldest temperatures of the year, with -8 in Seoul, -4 in Busan and Gwangju, and -7 in Cheongju.
The bureau also predicts increasingly cloudy weather throughout the week extending to December 25 due to a low pressure front which should arrive around December 23, and forcasts that snow will be unlikely. However, the bureau added that should the low pressure front, which is expected to cross over North Korea, pass through a little more toward the south, snow might be possible.
Since the bureau began recording these events, snow has fallen in Seoul on Christmas Eve eleven times beginning with 0.8 cm in 1938. Snow has fallen on Christmas Day nine times. Last year was a "White Christmas" with snow following between December 24 and 25.
Robert Koehler, internetnews@chosun.com
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