[Tomorrow's Weather] Mild Start to Lunar New Year Holiday...Beware of Fog on Homebound Roads

On February 14, the first day of the five-day Lunar New Year holiday, temperatures will be higher than in an average year, with relatively mild weather.

Morning lows are forecast to range from -2 to 6 degrees Celsius, and daytime highs from 9 to 17 degrees Celsius. The average climatological temperatures for this time of year are lows of -9 to 2 degrees and highs of 4 to 10 degrees. Skies will be mostly cloudy nationwide, but the Chungcheongnam-do region and the southern regions will gradually clear from nighttime.

One day before the 2022 Lunar New Year holiday, a Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency helicopter was inspecting the highway used by people returning home over the airspace near Singal JC in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. Photo by Kim Hyunmin (Aerial photography assistance: Moon Heungju, Superintendent; Shim Dongguk, Inspector, Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency).

In Incheon, northern Gyeonggi, and the northern inland areas of Gangwon, less than 1 millimeter of rain is expected between the morning and midday, and around 1 millimeter of rain is also forecast over the mid-mountainous areas and mountain regions of Jeju Island between the morning and evening. There will be places where raindrops of less than 0.1 millimeter fall in Incheon, northern Gyeonggi, and the northern inland areas of Gangwon at dawn; in the rest of the Seoul metropolitan area, the inland and mountainous areas of Gangwon, Chungcheongnam-do, and the central and northern parts of Chungcheongbuk-do between the morning and midday; and along the coasts of Jeju Island between the morning and evening.

Dense fog is expected in some areas, mainly in Incheon, Gyeonggi, inland Gangwon, and the Chungcheong region, and there may also be patches of black ice on the roads, so extra caution is needed for traffic safety during the homebound holiday travel.

The air will be very dry, mainly along the East Coast, so extra caution is required to prevent forest fires and other fires.

Fine dust concentrations are expected to reach "very bad" levels in Seoul, northern Gyeonggi, southern Gyeonggi, and Yeongseo in Gangwon; "bad" in Incheon, Yeongdong in Gangwon, the Chungcheong region, Gwangju, Jeonbuk, Daegu, and Gyeongbuk; and "good" to "normal" in other regions. However, until the morning, Incheon and the Chungcheong region are expected to reach "very bad" levels, while Jeonnam, Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam are expected to be at "bad" levels.

Waves are expected to range from 0.5 to 1.0 meters off the East and South Coasts, and around 0.5 meters off the West Coast. In the outer offshore waters, wave heights are expected to be 0.5 to 2.0 meters in the East Sea, 0.5 to 1.0 meters in the West Sea, and 0.5 to 1.5 meters in the South Sea.