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last, today (16th), the dark clouds are over and the rainy season is over. The rainy season alone was 54 days, the longest rainy season ever, but the task to be solved in the future due to unexpected weather changes is a heap.

This is reporter Jeong Gu-hee.

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This year's rainy season left a big scar on the Korean Peninsula.

Over 30,000 damages, including flooding of houses and loss of roads, occurred, and over 1,600 landslides were caused by rapid heavy rain.

There were about 8,100 victims who lost their homes and 37 deaths, and 5 are still missing.

The average annual rainfall in Korea is 1,370mm. During the rainy season, the rain that would fall for a year, including 2,325mm in the mountains of Inje, Gangwon-do, 1,398mm in Yeoju, Gyeonggi-do, and 1,257mm in Gwangju, poured out during the rainy season.

The rainy season we knew about has disappeared due to climate change.

It was common knowledge that the rainy season front was created between the high pressure of the Okhotsk Sea and the high pressure of the North Pacific, where there was no high volatility due to the large amount of water vapor, but it was cold air that developed abnormally in the continent, not the Okhotsk Sea high pressure this year.

Because the continental air is dry, it cools quickly and heats up quickly, which is very volatile.

As a result, the rainy season front fluctuated up and down the southern and central regions, and North Korea, and the Meteorological Administration could not accurately predict the rainy spot of the rainy season front.

The response system of the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources Corporation, which manages local dams and reservoirs, was also poor.

In the case of the Jeonbuk Yongdam Dam, when more rain than expected, the amount of discharge was increased without countermeasures, resulting in severe flood damage in the downstream area.

Although the rainy season is over, there are more tasks to be solved, such as improving forecasting capabilities, reorganizing the water management system, and revising work guidelines during heavy rain.

(Video editing: Park Jin-hoon)