Yuzawa Now: Monday 11th February 2013
- Feb 11, 2013
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 26
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 20cm
Snowfall at base this season 532cm
Weather overview Cloud, snow
Wind
Moderate
Temperature -2C base / -7C top
Visibility
Generally poor
Posted at 9:40am on Monday 11th February 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Yesterday a few friends of mine who live in the Niigata city area were telling me of the chaos that 'heavy snow' was causing up there - all while it was just snowing very lightly here in this part of the Prefecture. Of course they have a different idea of what heave snow is, for them 10cm is heavy snow. It needs to be at least 30cm for us Snow Country folk to define it as heavy snow! But it does seem that people to the north and in the plains once again got more snow than usual, while we were missing out. Still snowing up there this morning I hear...
But anyway... we also got our snow overnight, I'm happy to report.
I'd say... about 20+cm. Resorts also reporting between 15cm and 30cm with the most being reported by Kagura (as is so often the case of course). So a decent layer of new snow and what's more it is continuing to snow now as I am writing the report. If it carries on like this we should be able to report some more decent numbers tomorrow morning. The only downside is that visibility is generally very poor on the slopes this morning and there's a moderate wind at times. Potentially stronger winds later on in the day.
Tomorrow we might get to see the sun and it is forecast to be much clearer.
Yuzawa Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Monday 11th February 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 532cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 43 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 45cm (10th December) November 2012 snowfall 8cm reported on 3 days December 2012 snowfall 217cm reported on 15 days January 2013 snowfall 254cm reported on 19 days February 2013 snowfall 53cm reported on 6 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.