Due to the strongest cold wave that continued this week, the city's waterfall was frozen solidly, stopping the flow.
In particular, the morning minimum temperature in Seoul fell to minus 12 degrees Celsius, the lowest this winter.
The cold wind weakened from noon and the temperature rose significantly, indicating that the greatest crisis of the cold wave has passed.
Reporter Jung Hye-yoon reports.
[Reporter]
The city's artificial waterfall, which had been pouring down hard, turned into a huge ice garden.
Ice walls were created everywhere, and large icicles were also running.
This week, as a strong cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius continued to descend south from the northern sky, it was unable to withstand the severe cold and stopped the flow.
In particular, Seoul had the strongest cold wave for the second day, with the morning temperature falling to minus 12 degrees Celsius, the lowest this winter, and the temperature felt remained around minus 18 degrees Celsius for two consecutive days.
, but the momentum of the cold wind has eased significantly since the day.
[Cho Yoon-seo / Seodaemun-gu, Seoul: Today (10th) I came out to have a cup of coffee with my sister because the sun was warm and the wind was less cold.]
In fact, the temperature and the wind chill in Seoul have risen significantly since the day, and experts have analyzed that the biggest crisis of the cold wave has passed.
[Lee Jae-jeong/Kweather Forecast Team Leader: The temperature felt in Seoul remained below minus 15 degrees Celsius until morning, day and morning on the 9th.]
However, the cold air is weakening, affected by solar radiation, and the temperature felt during the day of the 10th rose to around minus 5 degrees Celsius. It is about 10 degrees higher than the previous day, and the biggest crisis in the cold wave has passed.
In particular, after recovering the video rights from the daytime on the weekend, both morning and daytime temperatures are expected to return to previous years' temperatures on holidays.
However, on the west coast, the temperature difference between the sea and the atmosphere will create a little more snow clouds over the weekend,
Next week, another strong cold spell will descend south, with the possibility of extreme cold and west coast snow.
[Woo Jin-gyu/YTN Disaster Advisory Committee, Meteorological Administration Information Officer: The temperature forecast shown in the mid-term forecast is likely to change little by little, but basically, the reason for the decrease in temperature is that the cold air passage from the upper atmosphere to Korea opens up...]
The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) urged special attention, saying that temperature and weather changes could increase again next week ahead of the coldest season of the year, "Daehan."
I'm YTN's Jung Hyeyoon.
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