Myoko Now: Monday 25th January 2016
- Jan 25, 2016
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 1, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Myoko region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 40cm
Snowfall at base this season 370cm
Posted on Monday 25th January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Myoko Now report can be found here.
The snow keeps coming down, even if we haven't seen the big increases that we keep getting promised.
Yesterday was a morning of good snowfall, the real Myoko kind (and it was a little colder than I had reported, actually, around -6° even at 10 am). But it didn't want to keep going, and we saw some sun before the snow came back in the afternoon as well. That, too, looked pretty promising, but by the later afternoon the snow had changed to partly sunny skies and some very cold strong winds (made for some especially unpleasant snowthrowing, with cold wind on the nose enhanced with snow flying everywhere).
Light snow continues to fall this morning, though, which is always welcome, even if it probably won't build up to the potential 40cm the weather reports were talking about this morning. We're still doing OK compared to a lot of places, but the snow just doesn't want to keep on falling for extended periods of time as it normally would. It's cold, too, with the car thermometer reading -9° at around 8 this morning.
The backcountry remains very bushy; we could still use a couple of meters of good heavy snow to finally push all that stuff down and get it under the surface. A sort of test team is out there right now, so I can give some more on-the-scene reporting tomorrow. It is getting better, but nobody's going to be doing massive powder turns for a while, unless this light snow decides to keep falling for many days, which looks unlikely. The freezing line will be heading up the mountain again toward the end of the week, with heavy rain even a possibility on Saturday. If that would just change to a heavy fall of physically heavy snow, maybe we could get rid of that bush and tree problem even faster!
Akakura Kanko:
-7° / 145cm
Akakura Onsen:
-10° / 180cm
Ikenotaira Onsen:
-8° / 150cm
Myoko Suginohara:
-12° (top)/ 120cm
Seki Onsen:
-7° / 250cm
Myoko Ski Park:
-5° / 155cm
Kyukamura RunRun:
-6° / 170cm
Tangram Ski Circus:
-5° / 135cm (how did they lose 20cm?)
Madarao Kogen:
-9° / 120cm
Myoko Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Monday 25th January 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 370cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 24 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (25th January) November 2015 snowfall 0cm December 2015 snowfall 140cm reported on 9 days January 2015 snowfall 230cm reported on 15 days |
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.