Members from the 374th Security Forces Squadron patrol

Members from the 374th Security Forces Squadron patrol the taxiway during a winter snowstorm at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Feb. 29, 2012. Eight and a half inches of snow fell in 15 hours, causing base leadership to call out the plows to clear the runway, taxiways and roadways. According to the 374th Operations Support Squadron weather flight, the snowfall was caused from an abundance of moisture from "Shanghai Low", the low pressure system which usually moves along the southern coastline of Japan.