Yuzawa Now: Saturday 10th January 2015
- Jan 10, 2015
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 25cm
Snowfall at base this season 799cm
Posted on Saturday 10th January 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Welcome to the long weekend! With Monday a holiday here in Japan, it's one of the main weekends of the season and so places expect to see quite a few people turn up.
So what's it going to be like? Snowy by the looks.
Back to yesterday and we had snowfall through most of the day, though it was pretty weak at times and we even had a few bits of sun and blue sky show through - but it was always short-lived.
Conditions out on the slopes was great though. Really very nice.
By evening it was back to at times heavy snow and this morning I have 25cm of new snow to report from outside the building here.
Maiko Snow Resort reports about 20cm.
Kagura reports 20cm.
Naeba reports 3-10cm.
No other specific numbers on offer that I can find early on.
It's snowing still and forecast to for the day today and tomorrow too.
So snow conditions should be excellent pretty much everywhere in the area. Visibility less so. A moderate wind at times maybe but all resorts are set to open as planned and it's not that cold.
It's one of the things lots of people like about this area - huges amounts of snow, but we don't get the crazy cold temperatures that some other regions get.
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I was just looking back at the reports from last season. (You can find them in all the archive reports below). As of 10th January 2014, we had observed 208cm of snowfall around town here. Today, that same statistic stands at a whopping 794cm. Nearly 4 times as much. I don't THINK there's a mistake in the automatic calculations there (!), but while we are quite obviously getting a lot more snow fall this year than last, even I'm surprised at that number.
Worth noting that those observed numbers are posted by the same person from exactly the same place, so there's no change there.
Have a great weekend.
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Official snow depths:
GALA Yuzawa:
370cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama:
320cm
Iwappara:
245cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
200cm
Kagura:
300cm
Kandatsu Kogen:
280cm
Maiko Snow Resort:
290cm
Naeba:
230cm
NASPA Ski Garden:
278cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
270cm (Kogen)
220cm (Nunoba)
Yuzawa Nakazato:
210cm
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Nighta in the area
Nighta 'night skiing' - where some slopes are floodlit for skiing and snowboarding in the evening, is available at the following resorts in the area.
Ishiuchi Maruyama:
Every day until 21st March (until 8:50pm)
Iwappara:
Every day until 22nd March (until 8pm on weekdays and Sundays, 9pm on Saturdays)
Joetsu Kokusai:
Every day until 22nd March (until 9pm)
Kandatsu Kogen:
From 23rd January, 'all night' on holidays (6pm or 10pm until 4am the next morning)
Maiko Snow Resort:
Every day until 14th March (until 8pm)
Naeba:
Every day until 29th March (until 9pm)
NASPA Ski Garden (skiers only):
Saturdays until 29th February (until 7pm)
Yuzawa Nakazato:
Saturdays from 10th January until 14th March (until 8:30pm)
Yuzawa Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Saturday 10th January 2015 Total snowfall at base so far 799cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 24 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 100cm (15th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 559cm reported on 16 days January 2015 snowfall 240cm reported on 8 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Yuzawa. 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.