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Some good news! Frigid air across NE Asia through the first half of this week will gave way to well above average temperatures by Friday and Saturday and, we could see conditions in the Philippines return to normal with drier weather in the forecast! The cold air even ushered in light snowfall in the Tokyo Metro area, the video below shot was shot last night at 1AM just outside of Shibuya. Still in the next 24hrs additional snowfall can be seen along the sea of Japan coastline causing yet more snowfall in the region that typically gets heavy snow this time of year from Hokkaido through Tohoku. In Niigata 35cm was reported in the past 24hrs.