First day of winter

Today is the first day of winter, according to the Japanese traditional calendar, and how accurate it is. After many fine days, cold gusts of wind blew strongly and the temperature dropped to about 8 degrees in the day. The mountains are shrouded by thick clouds and locals say that it is definitely snowing up on the mountains. Pity, the autumn leaves are so nice now. They say that after it snows up in the mountains thrice, it will start snowing in the plains.

A tornado hit Hokkaido and 9 people were killed!