Where the city weather guides and Korea's distinctive weather spots cover "where," this page covers "why" and "how." Why does jangma happen, is samhansaon really true, who names typhoons, and what process actually produces a weather forecast — here's a collection of facts that change how you look at the weather.
How the jangma front forms, why its timing shifts every year, and how the pattern is changing recently — covered in depth.
Read more →The Siberian High's cyclical cold-snap pattern, and why it seems less reliable than it used to be — covered in depth.
Read more →The rotating list of 140 names from 14 countries, and why especially destructive typhoons get their names permanently retired — covered in depth.
Read more →From observation to numerical models, supercomputers, ensemble forecasting, and a forecaster's judgment — the scientific process behind a forecast, covered in depth.
Read more →Why typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones — actually the same phenomenon — get different names, plus the WMO's wind-speed scale, covered in depth.
Read more →Why a squall was originally about wind, not rain, and how it relates to a shower — covered in depth.
Read more →Michael Fish's "there isn't a hurricane" forecast, the storm that killed 22 people, and how forecasting changed afterward — covered in depth.
Read more →The waterspout mechanism behind this repeatedly observed phenomenon worldwide, and real documented cases — covered in depth.
Read more →The math behind why a cotton-candy-light cloud actually weighs as much as 100 elephants, and why it still floats — covered in depth.
Read more →The 1964 origin of the word "petrichor," and how geosmin from soil bacteria creates the smell of rain — covered in depth.
Read more →How reduced sunlight affects serotonin and melatonin, and how light therapy helps — covered in depth.
Read more →How a 1°C rise in temperature affects violent crime, and the physiological mechanism behind heat and aggression — covered in depth.
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