The wintry atomospheric pressure - the northwestern areas, snowy, but the eastern areas,fine.

   In Iwamizawa, it snowed as deep as 59 cm, and the expressway was closed, but it was fine here in Tomakomai. A typical wintry atomospheric pressure - in the meteorological chart, over the west of the Japanese archipelago, there is high pressure, and over the east, low pressure. In this atomospheric situation, it snows in the areas along the Japan Sea, and in the other side of the northeastern parts of Japan, we have a fine weather, though the temperature is very low. So it was fine, and Mt.Tarumae looked beautiful thinly covered with snow on its summit.
   In the evening, I attended the monthly meeting of the neighborhood association. In today's meeting, two guests were invited from the city office, and they spoke about the prevention of disasters, especially earthquakes and tsunami.