You should prepare well for the cold wave and heavy snow this weekend.
Today (17th) will show a cold similar to yesterday.
As the temperature drops further overnight, tomorrow morning the lowest temperature in Seoul will be minus 13 degrees Celsius, the lowest this winter.
In this cold weather, heavy snow will fall in Jeju and the west coast.
Currently, as snow clouds are approaching from the west coast, a heavy snow warning has been issued in the west coast area.
It is a situation where there is a lot of strong snow of 1 to 3 cm per hour.
Looking at the amount of snow expected today and tomorrow, heavy snowfall of up to 50 cm or more is expected in the Jeju mountains and up to 25 cm or more in the west coast of Honam.
In addition, a lot of snow of 5 to 15 cm will fall in the west coast of Chungcheongnam-do and the western part of Honam.
Seoul will have a little less than 1cm of snow between this morning and afternoon.
You should also be careful of strong winds here.
Today, strong winds will blow in the mountains of Gangwon, Jeju, and the coast.
Also, in the east, the air is very dry.
You must be very careful in case of fire.
This strong cold wave will slow down for a while in the middle of next week, and next Wednesday, snow and rain are forecast across the country again.
(Im Eun-jin weather caster)