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After a week of unseasonably warm weather, a cold snap is expected to chill the central region of Korea on Thursday and Friday. The Korea Meteorological Administration said Wednesday that morning lows will be lower by 10 to 13 degrees Celsius in most parts of Gyeonggi and Gangwon Provinces.
A cold snap alert is in effect for 10 cities and counties in Gyeonggi Province including Gimpo, Dongducheon, Yangju, Goyang, and Uijeongbu, and six cities and counties in Gangwon Province including Pyeongchang, Cheolwon, Hwacheon and Chuncheon.
The morning low will drop to minus 16 degrees in Cheolwon in northern Gangwon Province.
Morning lows will be minus 15 degrees in Hwacheon and Inje in Gangwon Province, and Munsan and Yangju in Gyeonggi Province. The mercury will fall to minus 14 degrees on Thursday morning in Goyang and Ueijeongbu in Gyeonggi Province.
The morning low is expected to be minus nine degrees in Seoul on Thursday and Friday, down 7.7 degrees from Wednesday.
The coming cold snap is a result of the rapid expansion of a Siberian high pressure system into northern Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula, a weather forecaster said.
The KMA predicted that sandstorms will hit the Korean Peninsula between February and April this year more frequently than in previous years, as dry weather will continue in China and Mongolia, the origin of the yellow dust.
Since 2000, sandstorms have attacked the Korean Peninsula more than 10 times a year during the two late winter-early spring months. In 2001, 20 sandstorms hit the peninsula.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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