we will get to meteorologist shae ryan. a storm is on the way. they are anticipating snow. tell us about lower level winds and upper level winds. >> the lower level winds are affected by things like high and low pressure and like you were talking about the frontal system will affect the winds. right now this hasn't updated yet but winds in sendai are coming out of the northeast at about 9 miles per hour. so that is bringing any debris back in land. the same deal for fukushima and also for tokyo. winds are coming from the north to northeast. again, that's going to bring that air flow right back on to land. we were experiencing some offshore winds earlier in the day. but, again, as shepard was talking about, if you move into the upper levels of the atmosphere and the winds are fairly light when they are about 10 miles per hour. if that debris goes up, it gets picked up by the prevailing winds, which in japan are moving from west to east. so that carries it out into the pacific ocean. and you can see today during the day, again, 13 hours ahead, so