The icy road under the hazy sky for the second day...Tomorrow is the coldest day again.

2025.01.14. PM 7:09
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Air in most parts of the country is murky for the second day due to atmospheric congestion and smog.

There have been a lot of sliding accidents everywhere due to the wet road due to snow rain, and the extreme cold is expected to come again tomorrow.

Reporter Kim Min-kyung's report.

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The highway filled with hazy air, the boundary of the lane, and the surrounding landscape disappeared.

With the atmosphere stagnant, the air became murky due to the addition of fog and smog from China,

At one point today, air quality deteriorated significantly in places such as Gyeongbuk and Incheon, with ultrafine dust concentrations exceeding 100μg per cubic meter.

Not a few people fell on their way to work due to poor visibility and the wet road became very slippery due to snow.

[Koh Hyun-joo / Shinwol-dong, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul: It was a little slippery while walking down the alley. I thought it would be slippery if I put my hand in my pocket.]

[Jang Yeon-je / Bul-dong, Seo-gu, Incheon: I almost fell once in the morning, but I saw someone who put his hand in his pocket fall]

Due to the "radio-cooling" phenomenon in which heat from the surface escapes overnight, the surface temperature of the road is greatly lowered and the wet road freezes.

The air will be clean as cold air descends from the northwest, but roads that melted during the day are likely to freeze again and become slippery.

In particular, if the slope in front of the crosswalk is wet like this, the temperature drops overnight, forming thin ice and turning into an invisible icy road.

Tomorrow will not be the same strong cold wave as last week, but a cold wave warning has been issued in Gangwon Province and northeastern Gyeonggi Province due to the expected cold weather of below minus 12 degrees Celsius.

[Kim Byung-kwon / Meteorological Agency forecaster: On Wednesday, the 15th, the cold northwest wind will blow, and the daytime temperature in the central region will remain below zero]

Along with the cold, 1 to 5cm of snow is also expected to fall throughout the Midwest tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so caution is needed.

I'm YTN's Kim Min-kyung.

a photographerDesign;Ji Kyungyoon Jung Eun-ok


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