Yangsan Records 41.6 C as South Korea Heat Threshold Breaks Again

A new national temperature record was set on August 1, surpassing the previous high established only twenty-four hours earlier during a sustained period of extreme heat.

Yangsan recorded a temperature of 41.6 degrees Celsius at 2:08 p.m. on August 1, establishing a new national benchmark for South Korea. The reading, verified by the Korea Meteorological Administration through its network of 97 long-term observation stations, arrived one day after the same city logged 41.4 degrees Celsius on July 31. That earlier measurement had itself surpassed the prior national record of 41.0 degrees Celsius set in 2018 and stood as the highest temperature observed since modern weather recording began on the peninsula in 1904. The official confirmation of the August 1 reading superseded the July 31 mark within the KMA’s formal registry, compressing two historic thresholds into a single forty-eight-hour window [5][8].

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