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The Zaō Mountains (蔵王連峰, Zaō Renpō), commonly called Mount Zaō, are a complex cluster of stratovolcanoes on the border between Yamagata Prefecture and Miyagi Prefecture in Japan. The central volcano of the group includes several lava domes and a tuff cone , Goshiki-dake, which contains a crater lake named " Okama ".
The Zao Mountain is known for its conifer trees which become encrusted and solidified by January due to the hard rime phenomenon, which is caused by heavy snow and winds of freezing temperatures. [2] These formations are known as "snow monsters" or juhyo in Japanese. [6] They are caused by the frigid storm winds of the Siberian jet stream. [6]
On the summit of the volcanic Mount Zao in Japan, about 220 miles north of Toky. At an elevation of more than 6,000 feet near the top of a volcano exists a land of snow monsters, a mountainside ...
The Denver metro area may see a trace to 2 inches of snowfall through Sunday morning. Winter weather advisories for the high country Saturday. Potential snowfall through Sunday.
The storm started as rain in the Denver area and turned into snow. The area was expected to get 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 centimeters) of snow, with up to 2 feet (60 centimeters) in the western ...
It brought Cheyenne, Wyoming their largest two-day snowfall on record, and Denver, Colorado their second-largest March snowfall on record. The storm originated from an extratropical cyclone in the northern Pacific Ocean in early March, arriving on the west coast of the United States by March 10. The storm moved into the Rocky Mountains on ...
Mount Rainier and Mount Baker in Washington are the snowiest places in the United States which have weather stations, receiving 645 inches (1,640 cm) annually on average. By comparison, the populated place with the highest snowfall in the world is believed to be Sukayu Onsen in the Siberian-facing Japanese Alps. Sukayu Onsen receives 694.5 ...
Two storms with snow will affect parts of the Rockies this week, and at least one of the storms will bring accumulating snow to the Denver metro area, AccuWeather meteorologists say. Where the two ...