Yokota hits a snowfall
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Chief Master Sgt. Mark Misewicz, 374th Operations Group, shovels snow to clear the sidewalk in front of the distinguished visitor lounge, Feb. 29, 2012 at Yokota Air Base, Japan. Eight and a half inches of snow fell in fifteen hours, causing base leadership to call out the plows to clear the runway, taxiways and roadways. According to the 374th Operations Support Squadron weather flight, the snowfall was caused from an abundance of moisture from "Shanghai Low", the low pressure system which usually moves along the southern coastline of Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Osakabe Yasuo)