Hokkaido officials urged people to stay inside ... generating streamers of sea-effect snow that are deposited along the slopes and mountains of Japan. "Think of it as U.S. lake-effect snow on ...

This is due, in part, to a phenomenon called sea-effect snow. W hat happened: Beginning Monday, heavy snow hammered parts of Japan, particularly the northernmost main island, Hokkaido ...

Parts of Hokkaido have received all-time high snowfall ... Road closures may cause delays and cancelations. The heavy snow along the Sea of Japan coast is caused by a Japan Sea polar air mass ...

TOKYO – Researchers have found that global warming contributed to the unusually heavy snowfall that hit Japan’s Tokachi ...

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The Japan Meteorological Agency extended its heavy snowfall warning to around Feb. 9, mainly on the Sea ... Hokkaido. Kagoshima on the main island of Kyushu also observed 2 cm of snow over ...

Global warming could transform Hokkaido’s iconic powdered ... and graupel characterize the snow that often falls in the Sea of Japan side of the Hokuriku to Tohoku regions of the Honshu main ...

It will be rough at sea, and blizzard conditions on land ... for northern parts of the prefecture. Some roads in Hokkaido are blanketed in snow. Authorities are likely to issue heavy snow warnings ...

The snow is very, very wet and heavy there. I can ski much better in Hokkaido.” Hokkaido is surrounded by water, which fuels the weather systems that produce the consistent dry powder it is ...

Other causes of death include avalanches and falls into deep, loose snow around big trees. In Japan, the northern island of Hokkaido had reported 28 cases of people being stranded in the mountains ...