Japan Quake Site to Get Cold Rain, Snow

State College, Pa. -- AccuWeather reports the site of Friday's devastating earthquake, as well as an ongoing nuclear crisis, on northeast Honshu Island, Japan, will be visited by a winter storm bringing cold rain as well as snow.

The adverse weather will pose extra challenges to earthquake and tsunami survivors as well as rescue crews.

Most of the precipitation will fall through Tuesday night, local time, or Tuesday, EDT.

North of Sendai, snow will likely fall right to the edge of the sea leaving amounts of up to 6 inches through Tuesday, EDT, in the hills between Sendai and Aomori.

In greater Sendai and areas southward, cold rain and wet snow will chill the coast with precipitation becoming mostly snow in many areas inland. Temperatures will range mostly between 30 and the lower 40s across these areas.

On Wednesday and Thursday, EDT, the weather will be blustery and cold with snow showers, most of them happening northward from Sendai. Nighttime temperatures will dip below freezing with readings down to about 20 degrees inland.

By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist for AccuWeather.com