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Abnormal Climatic Phenomena Witnessed in DPRK

Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- In recent years, abnormal climatic phenomena have been witnessed so often in the DPRK as the seawater temperature in the equator and the subtropical zone goes up as a whole due to the global warming and much quantity of heat moves toward the middle latitudes.

In this regard, Kim Chol Min, section chief of the State Hydro-meteorological Administration, told KCNA:

High temperature has been recorded in the whole area of the country from the beginning of this winter season.

Around January 6, the beginning of the severest cold, the lowest daily temperature was registered as above zero in most areas south of the central part.

And there was rare-to-be-seen much rainfall under the influence of the low pressure of the Yangtze River.

Such weather phenomena are due to the southern high pressure strengthened by higher seawater temperature of the northwest Pacific, which weakened cold air from the north and made the frontal zone between hot and cold air placed in and around the country.