Japan, Snow, Snow & More Snow (photos)

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[M. Espinola]

Enough Snow Already!

Japanese soldiers clear the snow off houses and streets at Iiyama, northern Japan. (Kyodo News via AP)

A woman walks along a path made through the snow in Tokamachi, central Japan, January 7th, 2006. S REUTERS/Kyodo

A troop of Japanese military shovel the snow off a rooftop of a local school in Tsunan, north central Japan, Tuesday, Jan 10th, 2006. The death toll from snowstorms that have blasted northern and central Japan since early December rose to 71 on Monday after three people died while clearing snow, according to police and news reports. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Kazunari Fujikake)

Using heavy machinery, troops have begun clearing snow in the northern parts of the country in an attempt to reach villages isolated by the record snowfall. Several weeks of heavy snow have claimed at least 70 lives and injured more than 1,000 people across Japan. REUTERS/Kyodo

The village of Sakae, central Japan, is seen covered in deep snow, which cut off roads, in this January 10th, 2006 aerial picture.

An aerial view of Tsunan, Niigata Prefecture, taken from the Mainichi helicopter on Monday afternoon. (Mainichi Photo)

Japan's Mt Fuji, covered with snow, is seen through Shinjuku skyscrapers in Tokyo January 8th, 2006. The recovery of Japan's economy has been helped by a strong recovery in exports and a rise in corporate profits that has filtered through to lower unemployment rates and raise incomes. The recovery has bolstered confidence in the stock market, where the Nikkei share average surged 40 percent in 2005. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama

Japan's Self-Defence Ground Force members remove snow on a road in Iiyama, central Japan January 7, 2006. Troops and volunteers in Japan shovelled snow from roads and roofs on Sunday as the death toll from the country's heaviest snowfall on record rose to more than 60. Picture taken January 7th, 2006. REUTERS/Kyodo

A woman tries to dig out a car from the heavy snow in the northern Japanese town of Tsunan January 6th, 2006.

A bird flaps around an ice-covered statue of crane at a Tokyo park, Sunday morning, Jan. 8th, 2006. Tokyo is shivered in the cold weather this winter as temperature dipped to near zero Sunday morning.

A local resident clears the snow for a passage at Tsunan in northern Japan, on Saturday January 7th, 2006. Snow fell intermittently Saturday on this snow-plagued town, about 256 kilometers (160 miles) northwest of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Yoshinobu Shimizu)

Residents clear the snow piled on the roof of an arcade on Friday January 6th, 2006 in Tokaichi, northern Japan. The town, on the Sea of Japan side of the Japanese archipelago, is struggling with heavy snowfall brought on by a powerful cold air mass. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Yoshinobu Shimizu)

Japanese soldiers armed with shovels clear the snow off houses at Iiyama, northern Japan, on Saturday January 7th, 2006. A disaster relief unit from the Ground Self-Defense Forces was mobilized to tackle heavy snowfalls at this northern Japan city, where more than 200 centimeters (6.6 feet) of snow have fell by Saturday morning. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

Japanese brave the snow in Nagoya, central Japan / Reuters

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[msnimje]

It is a Snownami.

[Humidston]

BTTT.

[M. Espinola]

Good one!

How about ((((Snow-O-Rama))))

[wafflehouse]

i wish they would send some of that snow to kansas city..

[dsc]

Then there's the Kanto, where we had a total snowfall of a flake and a half.

[Lancer_N3502A]

I can't believe I'm the first to mention Kyoto and global warming in the same sentence. MWAHAHAHA!

[M. Espinola]

"I can't believe I'm the first to mention Kyoto and global warming in the same sentence. MWAHAHAHA!"

You know when global warming begins for Japan and the rest of the northern hemisphere? The months of May & June, it's called summertime :)

See right now countries such as Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Australia and New Zealand are being slammed by "global warming".

[M. Espinola]

"Then there's the Kanto, where we had a total snowfall of a flake and a half."

If you really need some snow I can have some FEDEXed over from up in New Hampshire. It's guaranteed they would love to unload some - lol

[M. Espinola]

Don't worry out there in KC, the winter is still young. Recall the old saying 'If Winter comes in like a lamb, she goes out like a lion'.

[dsc]

"If you really need some snow I can have some FEDEXed over from up in New Hampshire."

Thanks, but I'm fine.

[Caipirabob]

"Where is "grobar warming" Americans promise us? They fail us again!"

[wafflehouse]

well theres that i guess..
if that saying is true, it ought to get pretty exciting by the end.. im not holding my breath though :-)