{"id":2230,"date":"2012-01-11T08:48:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T06:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T12:38:37","slug":"wintertime-snow-walls-and-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=2230","title":{"rendered":"Wintertime, snow walls and records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-648\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/video.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/>While in Goms, Switzerland the snow already stacks up to 2.5 metres, one<br \/>\nwould think, it&#8217;s unbelievable. In Japan, however, the mountains and the ocean<br \/>\nweather streams allow much higher snow records. up to 15(!) metres the snow<br \/>\nmay pile up there and the streets are still passable. You don&#8217;t believe it? <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Even I could not believe this!<\/p>\n<p>Then wath these pics and videos and be amazed!<\/p>\n<p>This is also the reason why some buildings in Japan have a\u00a0second entrance in the second floor for the wintertime.<br \/>\nThe ocean winds, containing high moisture, are pressed against the mountains of Honshu resulting in extreme snowfalls. The pictures may give you an ide how this looks like:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2231\" title=\"Japan_SnowWall1\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan_SnowWall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan_SnowWall1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan_SnowWall1-360x480.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan_SnowWall1-18x24.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2232\" title=\"Japan_SnowWall2\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan_SnowWall2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan_SnowWall2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan_SnowWall2-24x18.jpg 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2233\" title=\"Japan_SnowWall3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan_SnowWall3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan_SnowWall3.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan_SnowWall3-360x480.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan_SnowWall3-18x24.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2230-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Snow-Walls-Honshu-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Snow-Walls-Honshu-1.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Snow-Walls-Honshu-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2230-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Snow-Walls-Honshu-2.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Snow-Walls-Honshu-2.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Snow-Walls-Honshu-2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Goms, Switzerland the snow already stacks up to 2.5 metres, one would think, it&#8217;s unbelievable. In Japan, however, the mountains and the ocean weather streams allow much higher snow records. up to 15(!) metres the snow may pile up there and the streets are still passable. You don&#8217;t believe it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,500,434,150],"tags":[1304,269,1306,1305,517,1308,1307],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-gallery","category-nature-2","category-video","tag-high","tag-japan","tag-moisture","tag-ocean","tag-snow","tag-street","tag-winds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}