in some areas of hokkaido.ot only is it the most snow, but it also brought this to an unusual place. this is a video from wakayama. a whale shark was found washed up on the beach in the prefecture on wednesday. the animal measured about four meters in length and is estimated to weigh around 500 kilograms. whale sharks are a rare sight in this area. and it is thought that typhoon wipha may have brought it to shore. it was moved into deeper waters so a boat could tow it to sea where it was released. >>> a lot of things happened across japan. looking at very sunny skies across tokyo metropolitan region. the area where that video came out from, you may see showers in the next 24 hours. talking about the showers, we still have a low-pressure system lingering over the central region of indochina peninsula. this is the typhoon that made landfall in central vietnam this week. it's still there. the additional amounts of rainfall could certainly up the risk of flooding across these areas. now to the americas. a very well

take a look at the north into hokkaido, 15 centimeters of snowfall currently on the ground.he key thing about this location is that this is upwards about 36 days earlier than normal for this amount of snowfall. a little bit higher farther inland, but you typically snowfall in the higher elevations, but this is extremely earlier. i want to show you what it looks like farther inland where the heavy snowfall is taking place, but at that one location, just a little fact about that since it is so early and actually record breaking. in the earliest snowfall since the record began in 1892 all, but ushered in by the cold air wrapped around behind wipha here and the residents were caught off guard by this very intense and heavy snowfall. it's not just here in japan we're seeing this be onning toner snow, though. i also want to show you what's going on in tibet where 116 touristses have been rescued from a base camp from a tourist attraction. tourists included about 25 overseas citizens. more than 40 rescuers and heavy machinery was required to clear the way after the snowfall surpass

we'll be bringing in rough seas, high waves and heavier showers, too, to parts of eastern hokkaido on tuesday, but as it moves away those will start to diminishi diminish and things will be settled across japan. however, there will be another system and this one, on the other hand, is just starting to switch up again. this one is fito which has become a severe tropical storm and it's heading into hokkaido -- sorry, heading into okinawa, i should say and heading into the islands over the weekend with very heavy rain. we're starting to model start to curve further toward the west so it could be impacting portions of southeastern china, and also, of course, taiwan and waiting to see what this storm is going do as it develops. looking quite wet across indochina across the monsoon and up toward the philippines and up to the north and much of china, too, things will be quite dry and pleasant. temperatures in the mid-20s as well as beijing, shanghai and chongqing. down toward the south we will see some more thunderstorms in the tropics and temperatures in the low 30s. on into the americas. q

heavy rain will be continuously moving in the way toward hokkaido and northern japan will also be in the bulk of this very heavy rainfall. so really stormy weather tomorrow throughout the day into the noon and afternoon hours. and i must tell you there's a low-pressure system over near the marianna islands over water. this is likely to intensify into a tropical depression status. another tropical development for us to keep an eye on. this is another storm system that has made landfall over central vietnam. this morning, gusts are packing 126 kilometers per hour. it is going to be winding down as the system moves over land, but the heavy rain will be conning to pound especially coastal regions in eastern idnochina peninsula. this area is very well saturated with the previous storm moving through and lingering here for about a week. so any additional rain could cause flooding and landslides. another storm to talk about across this area, too. we have storm system called octave, a tropical storm status. wind speeds, 65 kilometers per hour. look like it will be dying down. but as a low-pr

now up towards the north we have another system heading into hokkaido starting to produce torrents of rain. and we have a strong typhoon south of the country. different conditions for the continent. we are looking gorgeous blue skies across china, mongolia and the korean peninsula. but heavy rain is coming down in india as well as bangladesh through your friday. now across the americas, first of all i want to show this beautiful picture, beautiful sunny skies. this was taken in boston. and this high pressure system is a sunny maker. and also a cold weather maker. the coldest air of the region so far is blanketing the eastern half the u.s. and canada we have preez warnings and frost advisories here. and strong northwesterly winds are causing lake-effect snow for the great lakes region. some arias may get as much as 15 cent meters of snowfall into your friday noon. temperatures are extremely low in parts of the northeast. minus 2 degrees for the low in chicago. minus 4 degrees in winnipeg. so dress warmly. very chilly to the south as well. now across europe then we talked about a powerf

it could move through the tohoku region or hokkaido thursday morning local time as a high pressure system. most of japan will miss the worst of it but there's a problem. the windiest part usually found in the eastern hemisphere of the storm will be traveling over much of the country, so windy conditions will prolong into the next couple of days across most of japan. waves are going to be very high. about 9 meters. and it's the period of the spring tide, so the sea surface, the water levels are much higher than usual. coastal flooding is going to be a high risk in many places. and as for rainfall, more than 200 millimeters of rain is likely for southern parts of south korea and 250 millimeters for shikuku. enough to trigger further flooding and landslides. as for tokyo, staying dry, but windy conditions are expected to occur from wednesday evening. now, across china, the remnants of tropical storm is now located here producing lots of rain. more than 200 or even 300 millimeters of rain have been reported in provinces in the shanghai area. normal rain is welcome, but heavy rain will remain

frost advisories over towards hokkaido. what this will be doing, as it moves to the east, it will start to bring in warmer air around the southern periphery of it. also rain showers towards tokyo by sunday, you'll be seeing rain showers out here as well. northeastern china and korea, dry weather in place for much of this area. i want to talk about the tropics into the indochina peninsula and vietnam. we have seen heavy showers out here. about 160 millimeters in vietnam here in the past 24 hours. you've been looking at flooding out there after typhoon nari came onshore back on monday. still some pretty serious conditions. over toward the americas, one system is moving off to the northeast, another one coming in from the west. this one is actually bringing snowfall in toward the rockies, and the northern plains and western portions of the great lakes. that's going to push through, work its way toward the east. behind it, cold air is ushering in from the north. we'll see temperatures drop down with snow flurries in a few areas

northern japan, watch out for the risk of flooding as it pushes off to northern honshu and southern hokkaido by wednesday evening. i'll be back with more weather around the world. >>> the spl team is working to eliminate syria's chemical -- the u.n. secretary-general wants to strengthen the team to eliminate syria's chemical weapons arsenal. around 100 personnel are needed to do the job. right now about 30 experts are on the ground. the team is dismantling the ar accept al following a resolution. experts from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons in the u.n. have been supervising syrian forces as they destroy warheads and bombs. the spokesperson for the secretary-general says the opcw and the u.n. are satisfied with the cooperation they received. so ban submitted a letter to the council saying he wants more experts to join the team from november to june. syrian leaders are required to destroy their production facilities by november 1st. their entire arsenal must be eliminated by the middle of next year. the secretary-general said the process will require technical and oper

as it moves toward hokkaido and picking up the high waves along coastal regions. it's also bringing some tropical moisture surging to the system and the heavy sudden burst of showers coulbe likely anywhere across the eastern half of the pacific coast. the tropical moisture in the radiation cooling will combine and make dense fog across the country. that will be making visible less than 500 meters. very difficult for shipping and operating aircrafts. down below, see another formation, the storm we have been tracking. it is a severe tropical status as of now. looks like it will be intensifying over the warm water any time soon. already packing gusts of 126 kilometers per hour. by the time it reaches okinawa ilsds, it looks like it will be gusting about 200 kilometers per hour and it is going to be intensified as a strong typhoon status in the near future. we'll keep a very close eye on this as this will be dumping heavy rain across the southwestern islands of japan as well. to the north of that, high pressure will be predominant, and the korean peninsula will finall

one reason is because we have a low pushing across hokkaido. that will really pull farther off to the north. also we have our typhoon lekima continuing to weaken. this is also going to act as a pole pulling francisco quickly away from the coastline. as far as the direct impact from this storm system, it's a very strong one bringing the winds out here to the islands. it's not going to be directly hitting the coastline, staying well offshore. that's typical for october typhoons. usually by this time of year, they remain well offshore. remember, with wipha, that actually came near the coastline. just prior to that, we had another storm system push off here. now we have francisco pulling off as well. we take a look at the climatology, by this time it should be further off toward the east. with lekima happening, now we start to see the strong westerly winds come in. we've also seen snowfall off to the north. so i think we're going to start to see the typhoons weighing down farther to the north. if anything develops, more than likely it will be farth