South Korean Severe Weather
South Korean Severe Weather
Articles:
South Korea’s severe weather are snowstorms,
rainstorms, sandstorms, heat waves and droughts. There are four snowstorm
articles from the websites called The Korea Times, BBC, NBC News and Stripes,
which explain that South Korean snowstorm became a struggle for Seoul
and broke the record of snow falling in Seoul since 1937. One rainstorm article
of the website, The Telegraph, states that the South Korean
torrential rainstorm damaged areas in Seoul and killed around 32 people by
creating landslides and flash floods. The four sandstorm/dust storm articles
from the websites are Mega-zine, The Korea Times, Wikipedia: Asian_Dust
and Yonhap News, which explain that South Korean, yellow
dust, sandstorm/ dust storm affect the people health and spread around the country. The websites of
the heat waves articles are The Guardian, CNN,
and The Korea Herald, which
describe that South Korean heat
waves killed approximately 42 people, and that demonstrates the disaster that
occurred in South Korea. Three drought
articles of the websites, KBS World Radio, UPI and The Korea Times, assert that South Korean droughts create
fires in the forest and threat the
water, crop & aquaculture in South Korea. See the images below for
The Korea Times and NBC News:
Safety Precaution for Severe
Weathers:
Global websites include Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), American Red Cross
and National Weather Service. The Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) links are CDC: extreme heat, CDC: lightning, CDC: tornadoes and CDC:
winter. American Red Cross
links are Red Cross: winter-storm ,
Red Cross: tornado, Red Cross: thunderstorm, Red Cross: heat-wave,
and Red Cross: drought. National Weather Service
links are Weather: cold, Weather: tornado,
Weather: heat,
Weather:
thunderstorm, Weather: winter,
Weather:
lightning and Weather:
drought. These sites explain how
to be safe before/during/after severe weather has occurred.
Global/ Local Warning
Center:
Global warning centers include National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA)[ NASA: earth observatory ], World Meteorological Organization
[ World Meteorological Organization: Weather ] and The Weather Channel [Weather Channel: storms/tornado/forecast ].
The only local website is called Korea Meteorological Administration (
here are the links: KMA: weather/images/satellite, KMA: weather/climate/worldclimate
and KMA: weather/forecast/notice ).
Travel:
If you plan to
travel in South Korea, you should check this website called smartraveller: severe-weather
(see the images below).
Other Information:
Other websites/pdf, such as Science Direct , Tandfonline (below first two images), Atmos-chem-phys.pdf
and Kossrec.org: Socio-Economic_Costs.pdf
(below last two images), explain how to assess the severe weather
damage, what has changed and been revealed in South Korea.
Videos:
In Youtube, four video links that talk about severe
weather are South
Korea:
Yellow
Dust
Storm, S.
Korea
ready
to
support
N.
Korea
suffering
drought, S.
Korea
baking
in
temps
over
40 degrees
in
worst
ever
heatwave and Coldest
day
of
the
season
to
hit
Seoul (see below four videos from
Youtube).
Links Provided:
Articles;
Snowstorm:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34685733/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/seoul-battles-heaviest-snow-years/#.W85Ws0vYqUk
Rain storms:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8665688/Torrential-rain-storms-in-South-Korea-lead-to-flooding-and-landslides.html
Sandstorm/ Dust storm:
Heat waves:
Drought:
https://www.upi.com/South-Korea-drought-hits-crops-as-blue-green-algae-warning-issued/3521496164836/
Warning Center:
Guideline:
https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/types-of-emergencies/winter-storm.html
https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/types-of-emergencies/thunderstorm.html
https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/types-of-emergencies/heat-wave-safety.html
Travel guide:
https://smartraveller.gov.au/guide/all-travellers/avoiding-danger/pages/severe-weather.aspx#tornadoes
Other Information:
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPUjObmQpck
Luis, I really enjoy your thorough posts as they are very informative and thoughtful. although not in the same area I really see how similar our two countries are (mine being Peru) it seems that there is a real correlation between the two hazard wise. My chosen country seems to deal with heavy rains very often and with global temperatures on the rise it seems that these rains will continue to only get heavier. Anyways, great post as always.
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