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On January 30, 2019, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of snow across Hokkaido.

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English: According to Accuweather, the city of Sapporo, located on the island of Hokkaido, Japan gets the second-highest annual snowfall of all major cities on Earth, averaging 191 inches (485 cm) a year. This almost 16-foot (4.9-meter) snowfall comes in second only to Aomori City, Japan. Located in the mountains of northeast Honshu Island, nearly 312 inches (792 cm) falls in an average year in Aomori City.

Snow is such an integral part of winter on this northern island that it is widely celebrated—no less than 11 snow and ice festivals take place on Hokkaido in January and February. World-class skiing, hot springs, a village created out of ice, and ice-breaker rides through the Sea of Okhotsk are other ways that residents and tourists enjoy the snow-season across Hokkaido.

On January 30, 2019, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of snow across Hokkaido. Ice swirls in the Sea of Okhotsk. Banks of cloud stretch across the northeastern and southwestern sections of the image. The city Sapporo sits under cloud near the coast along the western (left) edge of the image.
Date Taken on 30 January 2019
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