"A fierce cold wave." - Close to 20℃...10cm of heavy snow on the coast

2024.12.17. PM 8:52
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Overnight, temperatures will fall below minus 10 degrees Celsius in the central interior, and a bitter cold wave will come.

In Gyeonggi Province and some parts of Gangwon Province, where a cold wave warning has been issued, the wind chill temperature will be close to minus 20 degrees Celsius, and the west and east coast will see a lot of snow.

Reporter Jung Hye-yoon's report.

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It's getting colder and colder.

This is because cold air below minus 30 degrees Celsius is coming down to Korea from the northwest of Korea.

Overnight, the whole country, except Jeju Island, is in the sphere of influence by freezing wind.

[Kim Byung-kwon / Meteorological Agency forecaster: As the cold continental high pressure expands, the northwest wind blows strongly, and the morning temperature will drop to around minus 10 degrees Celsius and the wind chill will be even lower.]

In particular, cold wave warnings have been issued in northeastern Gyeonggi Province, inland Gangwon Province, and mountains.

The Korea Meteorological Administration predicted that six regions in Gyeonggi-do, including Paju and Dongducheon, and Gangwon-do, including Pyeongchang, Cheorwon and Hongcheon, will see a severe cold wave of below minus 12 degrees Celsius for more than two days.

Some areas, including Paju, are expected to experience temperatures approaching minus 20 degrees Celsius.

In Seoul, there was no cold wave warning, but the temperature dropped to minus 6 degrees Celsius overnight,

The coldest weather of this winter will come, with a body temperature of minus 10 degrees Celsius.

At the same time, heavy snowfall of around 10cm was predicted until Wednesday on the west coast and between Wednesday and Thursday on the east coast.

The cold wave will last for about a week until next week, when Christmas is held, and snow is expected to fall in the central inland, including Seoul, on the weekend of the winter solstice.

I'm YTN's Jung Hyeyoon.

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