People with umbrellas walk past the Gwanghwamun in Seoul during the rainy season. The East Asian rainy season, also called the plum rain, is caused by precipitation along a persistent stationary front known as the Meiyu front for nearly two months during the late spring and early summer in East Asia between China, Korea and Japan. Japan later adapted and transliterated the Chinese term "plum rain" to call the rainy season tsuyu. The season is instead commonly called Jangma in Korea, which means "long rain". The wet season ends during the summer when the subtropical ridge becomes strong enough
People with umbrellas walk past the Gwanghwamun in Seoul during the rainy season. The East Asian rainy season, also called the plum rain, is caused by precipitation along a persistent stationary front known as the Meiyu front for nearly two months during the late spring and early summer in East Asia between China, Korea and Japan. Japan later adapted and transliterated the Chinese term "plum rain" to call the rainy season tsuyu. The season is instead commonly called Jangma in Korea, which means "long rain". The wet season ends during the summer when the subtropical ridge becomes strong enough to push this front north of the region. These weather systems can produce heavy rainfall and flooding.
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