The intense heat in Seoul is expected to continue, according to Seoul’s Office of Metrology. - Photo: EPA-EFE
SEOUL: South Korea broke a century-old weather record after 26 straight nights of so-called tropical weather – when the temperature stays above 25 deg C, according to official data released Friday (Aug 16).
Seoul’s Meteorology Forecast Division director Youn Ki-han said: “The cold air is not coming down from the north and as we are affected by the warmer side of the south-west, the temperature is continuously recording around 25 deg C or above.”
Much of the world is enduring a summer of extreme heat.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned last month of an “extreme heat epidemic”, and called for action to limit the impact of heatwaves intensified by climate change.
Overnight temperatures in the South Korean capital Seoul have sizzled above 25 deg C for 26 days in a row, officials said, marking the longest streak since modern weather observation began in 1907.
The record ties a streak set in 2018, but the weather agency counts the most recent as the benchmark.
The intense heat in Seoul is expected to continue, according to Seoul’s Office of Metrology, setting a new record every day until next week. - AFP
