This weekend, most of the country will see generally clear and mild weather.

The Korea Meteorological Administration held a regular briefing on the morning of the 7th and forecast that rain would fall in some areas and cooler-than-average weather would continue through Friday the 8th, before clear and mild weather returns on Saturday the 9th and Sunday the 10th.

Under the influence of a trough descending from the north, around 5㎜ of rainfall is expected to fall in places nationwide from this afternoon. The rain, beginning in Seoul around 3 p.m., will spread to the central region in the late afternoon and expand to the southern region at night.

The rain will cease in most areas nationwide before dawn the next day. As the trough moves out over the East Sea, the resulting atmospheric instability could bring scattered raindrops to inland and mountainous areas of Gangwon on the afternoon of the 8th.

Temperatures will fall through the 8th, keeping conditions colder than average (lows 9~14 degrees, highs 20~25 degrees), before easing from the 9th under the influence of a migratory high-pressure system. Daytime highs, which will remain between 17 and 23 degrees nationwide on the 8th, are expected to rise to 20~25 degrees on the 9th.

On the 9th and 10th, most of the country will see generally clear and mild weather. Forecast analyst Gong Sang-min said, “During the day, strong solar radiation will raise temperatures, and in the evening, the effect of radiative cooling will lower them, so the daily temperature range is expected to be large, around 15 degrees, and people should take care of their health.”

Next week, warm southeasterly winds are expected to blow in, and temperatures should rise toward the latter half of the week, the Korea Meteorological Administration projected. With clear and dry conditions continuing, temperatures are expected to run 3~5 degrees above the seasonal average.

The Korea Meteorological Administration explained that it is still difficult to predict the pattern of the rainy season this year. Forecaster Woo Jin-gyu said, “The Korean Peninsula is still in a period when it is influenced more by dry northern air than by moist southern air,” adding, “For the time being, the weather in Korea will show a pattern of migratory highs and lows alternating.”

The Japan Meteorological Agency announced on the 3rd and 4th that the rainy season had begun in the southwestern island regions of Amami and Okinawa. This is about a week earlier than average. Monsoon rains fall under the influence of a stationary front formed where the North Pacific High to the south expands and meets the air to the north.