{"id":18276,"date":"2025-02-24T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=18276"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:41:21","slug":"japan-warns-of-avalanches-icy-roads-ahead-of-more-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/japan-warns-of-avalanches-icy-roads-ahead-of-more-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan warns of avalanches, icy roads ahead of more snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Japan will face more heavy snow after a two-week whiteout, the country&#8217;s weather agency said Monday, warning people to be wary of avalanches and icy roads.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s regions facing the Sea of Japan experience heavy snowfall every year and are home to many ski resorts, drawing a growing number of tourists from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>But several cities have seen record snowfall this month, causing traffic disruption and fatalities.<br \/>\nThe Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said Monday more snowfall is expected in Niigata, Ishikawa and Nagano prefectures, as well as in some western regions including Hiroshima and Shimane prefectures.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also warned people to stay vigilant of avalanches, icy roads and freezing of water pipes in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>By 10:00 am (0100 GMT) on Monday, the northern Aomori City recorded five metres (16 feet) of snow, Niigata&#8217;s Uonuma recorded 3.81 metres, and Tadami in Fukushima prefecture recorded 3.13 metres, according to the JMA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan will face more heavy snow after a two-week whiteout, the country&#8217;s weather agency said Monday, warning people to be wary of avalanches and icy roads. The country&#8217;s regions facing the Sea of Japan experience heavy snowfall every year and are home to many ski resorts, drawing a growing number of tourists from abroad. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18278,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276\/revisions\/18278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}