You've heard of lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes. Check out what a larger sea and bitter cold air helped to generate in ...

Snow measured in feet is blanketing parts of Japan this week, with snowfall rates among the highest on record. This is due, in part, to a phenomenon called sea-effect snow. What happened ...

For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the ...

Google says it will rename the Gulf of Mexico on its U.S. maps, and Mexico is pushing back. This wouldn't be the first body ...

All this snow is thanks to low pressure swirling near northern Japan, which is home to some of the world's most prolific ... over the relatively warmer Sea of Japan, generating streamers of ...

Nishikan-ku, Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan Video Recording Date/Time: February 6, 2025 at about 21:00h A strong cold ...

Takanami, Tonami, Toyama Prefecture, Japan Video Recording Date/Time: February 5, 2025 Heavy snowfall has battered a wide area of Japan, especially the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan coast. In ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

One example is the Sea of Japan, located to the west of Japan. It is labeled on Google Maps' world map in the U.S. as Sea of Japan (East Sea) because South Korea calls it the East Sea. NEW ROLE: Gov.