Myoko Now: Friday 21st November 2025
- Nov 21, 2025
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Myoko region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 35cm
Snowfall at base this season 35cm
Posted on Friday 21st November 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Myoko Now report can be found here.
End of the penultimate week of November up here (not a word I use that often), and your writer was away during this week as the first snowfall arrived at the base level, bringing about 35cm of wet snow. I also missed the first introduction of my new dog to snow, and, being a Lab/Golden mix, she ate snow, buried her nose in the snow, and would not stop running in it. Not just snow-sliding humans that love the white stuff.
Not a lot of big changes for this season to announce. Myoko Suginohara did join the Ikon Pass system, which Lotte Arai was already a member of. More stuff is happening on the Suginohara side with the big development plans that I know many readers were commenting on/concerned about. It doesn’t seem like we’ll be the next Aspen, Whistler or Zermatt (depending on which press release you happened to have read in the past, like the figures of up to US$12 billion or something) but there are new hotels coming. It’ll be a few years until the first opens, maybe 10 years to get the project finished. Will the snow still be falling in 10 years? Will I still be skiing in 10 years? So many long-term things, so better to concentrate on the current.
All the gossip is that this will be a good year, and the snow this time is hanging on pretty well. Usually the first November snow means a heavy snow that breaks branches and brings down trees, but this time the snow is pretty normal and it’s not immediately disappearing. We have a few days of rain and sun before the next forecasted fall comes next week. It’s actually pretty nice weather for November, which is often the grimmest month of the year in Myoko (cold rain, gray, bare trees….). The snowthrowers are oiled up and ready to go; ski waxing can wait a little longer; almost all the hydrangeas are tied up against the heavy snow—your gardening tip for Snow Country! Tie up those hydrangeas and they’ll be tall and robust in spring, not crawling along the ground.
Anyway, Now it’s just waiting time until I meet with all of you on a regular basis. Maybe I’ll take some shots from the ski area opening ceremony on December 1 (complete with Shito priests and offerings and a big party. Must have a good party.
See you shortly!
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Data as of Friday 21st November 2025 Total snowfall at base so far 35cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 1 day Most snowfall observed in 1 day 35cm (on 21st November) November 2025 snowfall 35cm reported on 1 day |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Myoko. The 'new snowfall' number represents the amount of snow measured since the previous report. All opinions are those of the individual reporters. Information regarding ski area operations is manually checked every morning and is believed to be correct at the time of the report.