Japan blanketed by intense sea-effect snow. Highways cut, millions of people stranded, power outages. Record snowfall in Tottori, Okayama and Hyogo prefectures.
Hokkaido ski resorts closed due to too much snow.
Tottori Prefecture received a full years worth of snow in one day.
Japan completely paralyzed along leeward side of the country.
Plus, near record-low temperatures pushing minus 30 C.
Lived in Japan for 5 years. Hokkaido is very different from the rest of the country.
Even for Japan, getting a year’s worth of snow out of one event is unusual. Where snow has been falling this winter in the NH, it’s been falling heavily. Chalk that up to more water vapor in the atmosphere, while at the same time (looking at the global SST anomalies) we see a big chunk of the Indian Ocean, south Pacific, north Pacific, south Atlantic and north Atlantic—basically, towards the poles—with a lot of seasonally cold anomalies: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2017/anomnight.1.26.2017.gif
Interestingly, if satellites are useful enough to record daily SST anomalies, why are the satellite records of UAH and RSS discredited by climate scientists as being biased cold and therefore “unreliable”?
Clear proof of global warming,
… isn’t it?
This is how major ice ages begin!
(little one started years ago already)
which sorta says the oceans arent too warm on the eastern side of japan.
the oranges sales..well if theyre so daft as to not buy cos the dates different..then more fools they really;-)