There’s so much snow on the ground in Hokkaido, Japan, that it’s blocking the doors and windows of homes and businesses on ...

Without the images, it might be hard to wrap your mind around the amount of snow blanketing the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan. In just 12 hours, the city of Obihiro got 47 inches (about 4 ...

SAPPORO, Feb 5 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- The annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido's largest city kicked off as an ... “We look forward to visitors taking photos in front of our sculptures,” said one ...

The annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido's largest city kicked off an elaborate weeklong ... "We look forward to visitors taking photos in front of our sculptures," said one person busy at work ...

We conducted numerous air reconnaissance flights, producing thousands of images. The purpose of this ... and there was snow on the ground. People were without their homes, without heat and hot ...

These models, namely the GRAF, HRRR, and NAM, are high-resolution, which means they’re better at seeing finer details such as precipitation rates and areas of higher snow bands. Global models ...

Record-breaking snowfall fell on Japan’s northern main island of Hokkaido on Tuesday, disrupting traffic, causing airport ...

Obihiro, Hokkaido, Feb. 4 (Jiji Press)--The southeastern part of Hokkaido saw record snow from Monday evening to Tuesday morning as a developing low-pressure system over the Sea of Japan ...

and 50 cm in Hokkaido and the Tokai and Kinki regions. Municipalities hit by heavy snowfalls are struggling to cover the expenses for snow removal, which have also hit record high levels in some ...