The scorching heat continued as the mercury climbed to 36 degrees in Seoul on Monday.

The temperature climbed to 36-point-seven degrees Celsius in Seoul on Sunday, the hottest day for the capital in 18 years.

The Korea Meteorological Administration forecasts that sweltering weather will continue through the mid-week.

The sizzling weather is blamed on the hot and humid northern Pacific high pressure system and easterly winds that are turning hot as they cross over Mount Taebaek.

Tropical nights, characterized by overnight lows that never fall below 25 degrees continued for the tenth day Sunday in Seoul, the longest tropical night streak in the capital since 2000.

The season's eleventh typhoon, Haikui, is moving northwest in waters east of Okinawa, Japan. But it's forecast to veer toward China.