it's wet and windy across much of japan, meteorologist sayaka mori joae morei joins us with the latest. >> we have an active frontal system. as francisco takes an easterly direction, heavy rain will expand to the east as we go into saturday. the tokyo area will start to see heavy rain from tonight and that will continue into saturday morning. 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-e