The transition from winter to spring in Korea is always strange. Unlike the other seasons, where you wake up one day to find it 10 degrees warmer or colder, spring transition seems so long and is so drawn out that I would go so far as to say that Korea doesn't have a spring at all. From February to April weather fluctuates so much that you may be in a light sweater on Monday and your winter parka by Wednesday. This seems to pan out in May where it is firmly summer weather (though Koreans say that summer begins in June, but 26 and sunny everyday feels like summer to me).
This is especially true this week, where Daegu hit a high of 18 degrees on Saturday, February 1st. By Tuesday, February 4th, it was a high of zero and a low of -10. It is supposed to be around 8-10 by Friday.
Those sorts of changes will continue (while slowly getting warmer) for the next three months until you have a 4-22 range in April.
As to the other seasons?
May-September is 24-38, with July and August being downright tropical (35 and 65% humidity). Then one day in early October you wake up to 15, and it really does happen overnight. Then one day in early December you wake up to zero, again like someone flicked a switch. That usually lasts until February before the temperature slowly starts to rise again (though maybe a bit earlier this year?).
With an especially mild winter this year I am hoping the push to warm weather will begin a bit sooner, but we will see.
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