Severe winter storm and unusually heavy snow hit parts of eastern Japan

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Severe winter storm that started affecting eastern Japan on Saturday, February 8, dropped heavy snow, caused significant transportation problems and power outages. By Monday afternoon, February 10, the storm claimed the lives of 11 people. More than 1 200 were reported injured. 

As much as 27 cm (10.6 inches) of snow fell on Tokyo by late Saturday, which is the most in 45 years, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. The same day, parts of tsunami-hit coastal region received more than 38 cm of snowTokyo averages only 11 cm (4.3 inches) of snow each year. 

The storm caused power outages that affected 48 000 homes in the region surrounding Tokyo. The snow and ice were responsible for several traffic accidents in the prefectures of Ishikawa, Nagano and Aichi which resulted in 10 deaths, public television network NHK reported on Sunday.

Hundreds of flights have been canceled due to heavy winds. Some 290 000 passengers were affected by the delays the storm caused on the Tokaido and Sanyo bullet train lines that link Tokyo with the western portion of the island of Honshu.

The last time Tokyo picked up an 8-inch-plus snowstorm was February 12, 1994, said weather.com meteorologist Nick Wiltgen.

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Video courtesy of WestPacWx – February 8, 2014

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5 Comments

  1. I wonder how much destruction humanity has to see before it awakens. With exponential increase in heat, Earth is heading to violent peak and fall of energy. Climate change is becoming abrupt and gaining power. This could lead to huge natural catastrophes – There are two choices; get destroyed or awaken to Truth and enter Golden Age – Though I post lot on huge natural catastrophes. I still have hope for this world. It is matter of awaking to the Principle and Design on which nature functions http://www.thecanadiandaily.ca/2013/08/30/part-1-knowledge-that-can-save-humanity-from-climate-catastrophes/

  2. Your theory about Radiation causing weather patterns is just like another story we heard the other day in the news. Trade wind speeds cause global warming. Complete rubbish!

  3. Radiation from Fukushima is probably affecting the weather pattern; making the air unseasonably hot which mixes with cold air, forming precipitation which freezes.

  4. My Kung Fu from water is “born” like Jason….
    I could have built you an Ark…but you mocked the number one Freemason….
    Now the UK is screaming …stop the rain …the RAIN….
    And like Dr Smith “Lost in Space”….I sigh oh the pain the pain…

    Dancing up storm after storm like an amphibian devil….
    Welcome to water world that was once a Somerset level…
    You built your Kingdom…like Isambard Brunel……
    Well I’m the joker in the pack and you’re entering earth change Hell…

    As your plans continue to sink….
    No time to even think….
    Your monkey asses are in the drink….
    And sewage is the plug that now blocks up your sink…

    I can foresee the possibility of hysteria…..
    As bacteria multiplies and leads to outbreaks of listeria..

    Like I told the bitch…..no individual or group can stop me from winning….
    My Qi Gong (milankovitch cycles) leads to erratic planetary spinning….
    Which for you (my subjects) means doom…
    If you continue to ignore the mutha luvin elephant in the room…

    https://soundcloud.com/the-pamphleteer/elephant-in-the-room

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

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