robert speda joins us with the latest. >> a storm system that did bring snow across much of the tokyo area has moved off to the east. so those sunnier skies prevailing along the coastline. not for the sea of japan coast. we still have westerly winds plowing in moisture from the mountains here. what i'm talking about is those snow totals on thursday, because a lot of people were rather surprised to see the white stuff out there. even in downtown tokyo, we saw about 1 centimeter, a little bit less than that east of year. some areas in the lower elevations, 14 to 15 centimeters on the mountain tops. so a lot of snow to go around. blue skies dominating the pacific coastline today. it should clear up as we head into saturday for the most part. if you take a look at our 48-hour precip development, there's lots of moisture out here as it pulls to the northeast. widespread rainfall across most of japan. this is not going to be a snow maker, at least down towards the south. probably across parts of hokkaido or the higher elevations, but you probably want to have an umbrella with you in the tok