Tokyo Sets Record For Longest Winter Without Snow - AFP

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Tokyo on Sunday set a record for its longest snowless winter amid growing worldwide concerns about global warming, meteorologists said. The metropolitan area of the capital has not had snow this season, making it the longest snowless winter since statistics were first kept in 1876, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The previous record was set in 1960 when the season's first snowfall was observed on February 10.

"Since we do not forecast any snowfall in the Tokyo area at least over the next week, the record is likely to be extended further," an agency official said.

Tokyo has never had a winter without any snow, he said.

On Friday, the agency said Japan's average temperature in January was the fourth highest on record, at 1.44 degrees above normal. The record was in January 1989 when temperatures in Japan were 2.09 degrees Celsius higher.

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http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Tokyo_Sets_Snowless_Record_999.html

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1. I don't think Tokyo normally gets much snow anyway, does it?

I lived there 1962-1965, as a child. I don't recall ANY snow where we lived (not saying it didn't happen). I would think any snow there would have made an impression on me, as a child.

We saw LOTS of snow when we went up into the mountains at Hakone.........