snowfall is forecast along the japan sea coast. rupert wingfield hayes has more. in a normal december, this town in centraljapan might get a sprinkling of snow a few centimetres at most. but on monday and tuesday, it was blanketed by 68cm of snow. the little town became completely gridlocked. people in this part ofjapan just don t expect this much snow and they are not really prepared for it. further north, in what japanese people call snow country, it s a different story. here, people know all about how to deal with the white stuff. but even so, the amounts that have fallen in the last few days are pretty extreme, especially for december. meteorologists say the huge snowfall has been caused by a large and extremely unstable air mass sitting over the sea ofjapan. they say there is plenty more to come over the new year. that is bad news for those about to hit the roads and railways and planes.
it was blanketed by 68cm of snow. the little town became completely gridlocked. people in this part ofjapan just don t expect this much snow and they are not really prepared for it. further north, in what japanese people call snow country, it s a different story. here, people know all about how to deal with the white stuff. but even so, the amounts that have fallen in the last few days are pretty extreme, especially for december. meteorologists say the huge snowfall has been caused by a large and extremely unstable air mass sitting over the sea ofjapan. they say there is plenty more to come over the new year. that is bad news for those about to hit the roads and railways and planes. japan is about to shut down for its biggest holiday of the year. millions of people will flood out of tokyo and other big cities heading for their ancestral home towns. this year, they may be heading
rupert wingfield hayes has more. in a normal december, hikone castle in centraljapan might get a sprinkling of snow a few centimetres at most. but on monday and tuesday, it was blanketed by 68 centimetres of snow. the little town became completely gridlocked. people in this part ofjapan just don t expect this much snow, and they re not really prepared for it. further north, in what japanese people call snow country, it s a different story. here, people know all about how to deal with the white stuff. but even so, the amounts that have fallen in the last few days are pretty extreme, especially for december. meteorologists say the huge snowfall is being caused by a large and extremely unstable air mass sitting over the sea ofjapan. they say there is plenty more to come over the new year. that is bad news for those about to hit the roads