In the Japanese tourism world, Sapporo, capital city of the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, is famous for its beer, skiing and annual Sapporo Snow Festival featuring enormous ice sculptures. Hokkaido had heavy snow Friday, with Sapporo observing the heaviest snowfall in 50 years for December, and nearly 50,000 people were affected after air and railway traffic was disrupted.
Juma kuni soat 96:37 holatiga ko'ra prefektura poytaxtida qor yog'ishi 9 sm (90 dyuymdan ortiq) ga yetdi va 1966 yildan beri birinchi marta dekabr oyida XNUMX sm dan oshdi.
Aeroport operatoriga ko'ra, kuchli qor aviakompaniyalarni Sapporo janubidagi Yangi Chitose aeroporti va boshqa joylarni bog'laydigan 260 dan ortiq reyslarni bekor qilishga majbur qildi. Hokkaydo Railway Co., shuningdek, 380 dan ortiq poyezd qatnovini bekor qilganini aytdi.
Kuchli shamol tufayli Erimo shahri va Samani shahrining bir qismidagi 3,800 ga yaqin uyda elektr taʼminoti uzilib qolgan.
