Wednesday, May 28, 2025

A – Z Cities with Mysteries – Real & Fictional

 Yamagata, Japan

 

Snow Monsters

The juhyo effect is a sustained cycle of ice accumulation that changes the scrubby fir trees into towering surreal oddities of snow and ice.

This unusual natural phenomenon occurs on the tip of Mount Zao every winter from late December to the middle of March. Harsh Siberian winds travel across the North Japan sea and the western plains of Yamagata. They batter the wooded mountainside. The freezing winds drop two to three meters of snow on the ground and glaze the fir trees with freezing condensation.

Zao Onsen ski resort is one of the few places where spooky snow monsters appear mid-February.

Alpine trees bombarded with heavy snowfalls and icy winds grow into tall, monster-like creatures.

 





 

 

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