Yuzawa Now: Sunday 11th January 2015
- Jan 11, 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 824cm
Posted on Sunday 11th January 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
The crazy snow situation continues into today.
25cm more snow here in town level since yesterdays report.
Maiko reporting 25+cm.
Kagura report 20cm and Naeba reporting 10-30cm.
I have explained this previously, but the reason we are mentioning those particular resorts with the new snowfall numbers here is because they are the only ones that are sharing such data - if there was data from other places, we'd mention it here. (And if anyone knows of any data that might be available and we are missing, do let us know and we'll be happy to mention it). If I ran a skijo, it's a number I'd get out there every morning
It's still snowing and that's what is forecast for the day today and quite possibly into tomorrow as well.
Tuesday onwards though it's looking like sunny skies will dominate for a few days.
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It was in the local Japanese newspaper on Friday about how the numbers of skiers and snowboarders visiting the resorts in Niigata over New Year was down on last year. The reason given being the heavy snowfall putting lots of people off. Sounds odd doesn't it. (The one thing they also mentioned was the increase in number of foreigners on the slopes).
This long weekend I am sure that the resorts were really hoping for some nice sunny weather to get lots of people out, and so they'll have mixed feelings about this heavy snowfall again.... I have spoken to a few resort folk over the last few days and while they are happy that there's lots of snow, the general feeling now seems to be 'we have enough!' and just regular topups would be ideal.
So much snow creates a lot of work for locals as well and visitors can see people out and about with shovels and other tools of the trade to try and cope with the huge volumes of snow.
I wonder how the rest of the season will work out. It sure will be interesting to find out!
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Official snow depths:
GALA Yuzawa:
360cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama:
320cm
Iwappara:
270cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
200cm
Kagura:
300cm
Kandatsu Kogen:
300cm
Maiko Snow Resort:
330cm
Naeba:
230cm
NASPA Ski Garden:
277cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
280cm (Kogen)
230cm (Nunoba)
Yuzawa Nakazato:
215cm
Yuzawa Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Sunday 11th January 2015 Total snowfall at base so far 824cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 25 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 265cm reported on 9 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.