Snow in “tropical” Tokyo
Right now the No. 1 news on NHK TV is that it has been snowing all day here in tropical-to-a-Chicagoan-like-me Tokyo. Thanks to global warming it now only snows a couple times a year in Tokyo. Twenty odd years ago, snow happened several times a year (although it was never cold enough for me to buy a heater from my first two years in Tokyo). However, this time the snow is going to stick on the ground and accumulate for once.
As you can see from the live webcam facing the bridge just north of my condo, things are getting white at my house on the Tawagawa River, Denenchofu.
Harsh Japan winter finally catches up with Tokyo
TOKYO—- Japan’s harshest winter in decades finally caught up to Tokyo on Saturday to blanket the capital in its heaviest snowfall for five years, forcing flight cancellations and slowing trains. Although snow can fall in Tokyo once or twice a year, temperatures usually hover above freezing, making significant accumulations rare…more…
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January 22nd, 2006 at 7:32 am
Ya, this suprised me and this Japan/crazy amounts of snow thing gets wackier and wackier. :P
January 22nd, 2006 at 10:18 am
Well Shay, it’s not like we aren’t used to snow. Back in my home in Colorado (Arapahoe County, Coalmine Road) there’s plenty of it I missed this year. But Tokyo? Naaa, it hasn’t snowed for real since 2001.
It’s 10am the day-after and already the roads are clear, the roofs are dry and patches of white receding into the shadows as you can see here on the Tarocam.
Anyway, Shay you have a good site at sparkplugged.net–keep up the good work.
January 25th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Global warming causing fewer snowfalls in Tokyo than 20 years ago? Guffaw!
Try 16-year snowfall cycles, and leave the global warming theories to real scientists.