Climate Talk

42.5C in Yangsan, and the stat that stuck with me: 19 heatwave days vs 8

The record itself is shocking, South Korea's hottest temperature in more than a century of records, and the fifth day in a row Yangsan went above 40C.

But the number I keep coming back to from the GONOM post is the KMA average: 19 heatwave days a year over the past five years, versus 8 in the 1970s. That is a whole different summer, not a hotter afternoon.

Also interesting that Korea introduced a new emergency heatwave alert this year. In India we have learned that warnings only work if people can act on them, cool shelters, water, work breaks. Curious what Korean members think of how it worked.