Intense heatwave to take a break with monsoon rain _ 070518

  • 6 years ago
Good morning, the sweltering heat will ease today with monsoon showers.

It's been raining in southern regions since early in the morning, Seoul will see rain from around lunchtime.

Inland regions will see passing showers but they could come down heavy... while most of the southern regions will see 5 to 40 millimeters of monsoon rain, which should let up in the afternoon.

No burning sunshine or scorching temperatures today, but it is humid... topping out at 29 degrees Celsius in Seoul and Daejeon, and it's a little warmer in Gwangju at 30 degrees.

With that, let's take a look at the international weather for viewers around the world.

While inland regions of South Korea will have moderate to heavy monsoon showers this afternoon, parts of North Korea will have another day with sporadic showers.

Over in Thailand, Chiang Rai will see on and off showers until Friday then heavy monsoon rainfall is predicted starting this weekend.

A thick layer of fog has covered Sydney early this morning, with low visibility causing traffic chaos in and out of the city.

In LA, high surf and a heatwave has sent many to the beach on the holiday... expect extreme heat on Friday.

As for South America, Brazil's two major cities will be hot and sunny.

Taking you to Europe,... storms will send temperatures plunging and put the UK heatwave on hold.

Lastly to Africa, Addis Ababa will have unstable weather conditions for a week or so.

That's the weather update for now.