Early winter cold due to the cold northwest wind... The temperature dropped to minus 5 degrees on Saturday morning.

Early winter has arrived as the cold northwest wind blows.

As cold air from the north of Korea was brought in by the northwest wind blowing along the edge of the high pressure moving southeast from northern China, the temperature around the metropolitan area fell 5 to 8 degrees from the previous day on the morning of the 6th.

In Gapyeong (Buk-myeon), Gyeonggi-do, the morning temperature dropped to 0.5 degrees Celsius and in Yeoncheon (Baekhak-myeon) to 0.7 degrees Celsius, in many places barely below freezing. The lowest morning temperature was below 0 degrees in high altitude areas such as Seoraksan Mountain in Gangwon (-3.3 degrees), Mount Gwangdeok (-3.1 degrees), and Imnam-myeon in Cheorwon (-1.4 degrees).

As of 8 a.m., temperatures in major cities are 12.8 degrees in Busan, 12.5 degrees in Ulsan, 11.7 degrees in Daegu, 11.1 degrees in Gwangju, 8.0 degrees in Daejeon, 6.2 degrees in Incheon, and 5.6 degrees in Seoul, and the central region remains in the single digits.

The highest temperature during the day is expected to range from 8 to 16 degrees.

Compared to the previous day, the midday temperature is 3 to 10 degrees lower.

The cold caused by the cold northwest wind will continue for a while.

On the morning of the weekend, temperatures will be 5 to 8 degrees lower than today, with sub-zero cold in the central region, eastern Jeollabuk-do, and inland Gyeongsang Province. Strong winds will blow across the country until the 7th, the day of winter, adding to the cold.

Looking at the temperature forecast, the lowest morning temperature on the 7th will be -5 to 5 degrees and the highest daytime temperature will be 8 to 14 degrees, and the 8th will be -1 to 6 degrees and 7 to 15 degrees. Nationwide, the daily temperature difference will be as large as 10 to 15 degrees.

Strong winds exceeding 70 km/h (90 km in the mountains) are expected to blow in Jeju until this afternoon, parts of the west coast of Gyeonggi Province until this evening, and the northern Busan region of Gangwon until the morning of the 7th.

During the morning of this day, strong winds with instantaneous winds of more than 70 km per hour will begin to blow along the Jeonnam coast.

The rest of the region is expected to experience strong winds with instantaneous wind speeds of around 55 km/h (70 km/h in mountainous areas) from this day to the morning of the 7th.

In the case of the sea, winds continued to blow at speeds per hour in the seas off Jeju (west and east) where a wind storm warning was issued this morning, in the far seas in the central West Sea this evening, in the far seas south of the West Sea, far seas in the eastern South Sea, far seas south of Jeju, far seas in the central East Sea, and far seas north of the southern East Sea until the 7th, and in the far seas south of Jeju until dawn on the 8th. It will blow strongly at 35 to 50 km (9 to 14 m/s), and waves will rise 1.5 to 3.5 m high.

In the remote sea in the central part of the East Sea and the far sea in the northern part of the southern East Sea, the wind will be stronger starting this morning, with wave heights exceeding 5.0m, and in the distant sea in the northern part of the southern part of the East Sea, the distant sea in the southern part of the East Sea, and the sea off the East Sea (excluding the sea off Ulsan), the wind will gradually blow at 30 to 70 km (8 to 20 ㎧) and the waves will increase. It will rise 1.5 to 4.0 m high.