CONTACT:  Patricia Viets, NOAA                      2/6/98

MEDIA ADVISORY NOAA PLACES CLIMATOLOGY OF NAGANO ON-LINE

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center has developed a page on the World Wide Web that covers the climatology for the Winter Olympics 1998 - Nagano, Japan. The climatology answers questions such as: How cold is it generally in Nagano? Does it snow there in February?

The Web page includes graphs, tables, narrative information, and additional links. The address is: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/reports/olympics98/nagano.html

Satellite imagery of Japan, updated daily around noon EST, is available at: http://www.ceos.noaa.gov/SPECIAL/SNOW/olympic.gif