SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted December 1, 2008 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted December 1, 2008 WEATHER & SNOW FORECASTS For the last 4 or 5 years, during the winter season we have presented a basic weekly weather forecast for many of the ski and snowboard resorts throughout Japan. You might remember it looked like this: For some time now we have been thinking through how we can improve things on the scale that we require. Perhaps with some sadness, it is time to say bye-bye to the little snowmen wearing mysteriously coloured hats and gloves and from today we are happy to have made significant changes to the data that is shown on our resort pages. Here is how it looks now: As you can see from the above image, a lot more detailed and useful information is presented on the new pages including wind info, predicted snowfall (or rainfall), temperatures, wind chill, freezing level, sunrise and sunset information. A full 6 day forecast is available by clicking on the TOP, MID and BOTTOM links at the top of the report. You can check it out on over 250 of our resort pages on the site and here are some samples for popular resorts: Naeba: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resortdetail.php?resid=1 Niseko Grand Hirafu: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resortdetail.php?resid=120 Happo-one: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resortdetail.php?resid=65 Nozawa Onsen: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resortdetail.php?resid=40 (If you have a webpage you are welcome to link to any of the resort pages if you wish). PLEASE NOTE: By default, the forecast for 3+ days appears on the page - each day is split into morning, afternoon and night. Towards the top of the report you will see links that are called TOP, MID and BOTTOM. If you click on any of these links, a detailed 6-day forecast will appear on the page as an overlay. TOP is data for the top elevation of the resort, BOTTOM is data for the base. MID is the mid-point between those two elevations. To close the overlay box, please click on the small "X" that you can find in the top right of the overlay area. ------------------------ We have already implemented this information on over 250 of our ski and snowboard resort pages - including most of the larger resorts in Japan. We are currently working with the data providers to increase that coverage and hope to implement that in the coming weeks. For more information on this data as well as the other daily weather and snow reporting that we present on our site, please see this page: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/aboutweather.html We hope you like this change. ------------------------ (The "Current Snow Depth" and "Resort Status" data presented on the resort pages will begin updating for the season in a week or so - we will post here when that begins). Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Quote: it is time to say bye-bye to the little snowmen wearing mysteriously coloured hats and gloves Huge improvement. Good work. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Those snowmen never really got the love did they? The new sf data on there is really great. Link to post Share on other sites
jaxjazzy 0 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 I just have one question; Is it snowing in Houdaigi? Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 the popup function is a great idea Link to post Share on other sites
Amos in Utsunomia 0 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Nice, like that. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 SJF - using snow-forecast.com - good move - that will save me a heap in subscriptions to them. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 That looks great. Will be bookmarking some of them now. Link to post Share on other sites
lin 0 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 That is such a big improvement on those little forecasts you had on the pages before. Link to post Share on other sites
durian 0 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Looks so much better now. Link to post Share on other sites
nagpants 1 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 How I will miss the little snowmen. Their day has past though, significantly better. Well done. Link to post Share on other sites
Red Dog 0 Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 nice. Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Much improved, looks great the way you have it set up. Bookmarked 10 of 'em. Link to post Share on other sites
Greenroome 0 Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Man, that is impressive. Everything I need to know. From a city-living snow commuter, a thousand thank yous. Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Been using this since you changed it. Great stuff a huge improvement. Thank you! Keep up the good work. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Moderator SnowJapan.Com#4 5 Posted December 10, 2008 SnowJapan Moderator Share Posted December 10, 2008 Thanks for the comments, always good to hear. We'll be adding this weather to another bunch of resorts on the site very soon. Link to post Share on other sites
neversummer 0 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Now we don't have to pester the Niseko Now person.... Link to post Share on other sites
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