The amount of snow is color-coded on the map. Japan Meteorological Agency Nov. 14 6:41
The Japan Meteorological Agency has begun to announce new information that displays the color of snow on the map based on radar analysis.
Information on snow that the Japan Meteorological Agency has begun to announce on the homepage on the 13th is analyzed by analyzing the depth of snow and the amount of snow falling based on radar and temperature data, and color-coded every 5 km on the map. To do.
Until now, we only knew where the AMeDAS observation point was located, but the new information suggests that it will help us to understand the general situation even where there is no observation point.
Apart from this, in the last season, Yamagata and Fukushima prefectures will be put into full-fledged operation for information that calls attention to short-term heavy snow that has been experimentally used in the three prefectures of Hokuriku and Niigata Prefecture last season. It was decided.
When the amount of snowfall in 6 hours and the amount of snow expected after that exceed a certain standard, weather stations in each region announced short text information titled “Meteorological Information on Remarkable Heavy Snowfall” We will call for caution against traffic effects.