대전 충청•전북 물폭탄,.. 역대 늦장마 가능성<br /><br />Heat wave is what we would expect this time of the year here in South Korea.<br />That's not the case this year as the country battles with heavy downpours.<br />Parts of South Korea were slammed by heavy rain overnight which left homes and cars flooded and people trapped inside buildings.<br />And the weather agency forecasts the monsoon season to last longer this year.<br />Lee Kyung-eun reports.<br />Monsoon rain has slammed the central and southern parts of South Korea on Thursday morning.<br />The central city of Daejeon is among the hardest hit …with some areas receiving more than 2-hundred-60 millimeters of rainfall.<br />In an apartment complex, cars are flooded, and people were trapped inside buildings waiting for the fire services to rescue them.<br />With the water level reaching people's waists, even boats were used for the rescue.<br />High-speed rail services have also been delayed due to flooded tracks.<br />It was a similar situation in Chungcheong-do and Jeollabuk-do provinces.<br />As the day progressed, heavy rain alerts have been lifted in most parts of the country.<br />But another round of torrential rain is expected in the southwest on Thursday night.<br />These places could get up to 2-hundred millimeters of rain by Friday morning.<br />The rest of the country, including Seoul, will receive about 5 to 40 millimeters of rain.<br />This monsoon rain will come to an end on Friday for southern regions.<br />But the national weather agency forecasts on-and-off heavy showers will continue longer in central regions.<br />"Heavy rain is forecast for central regions over the weekend, as the monsoon is expected to continue into next week.<br />This unusually long monsoon is due the cooler air that's still lingering over the country, blocking the inflow of the heat from Japan.<br />"A stationary front is generated between the cold, upper air and the warm northern pacific high pressure,...causing massive rainclouds.<br />The weather agency forecasts the monsoon will end on August 10th, after it moves back and forth across the peninsula.<br />If the forecast is correct, it would be one of the longest monsoon seasons ever recorded in South Korea.<br />Previously, the latest the monsoon has ended was August 10th in 1987, followed by August 4th in 2013, and August 2nd in 1991.<br />Lee Kyung-eun, Arirang News.<br />
