Yuzawa Now: Tuesday 13th January 2015
- Jan 13, 2015
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 20cm
Snowfall at base this season 874cm
Posted on Tuesday 13th January 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
It kept on snowing yesterday with most people now asking 'when is this going to stop'?
10cm on top of the car this morning but I moved off 10-15cm last night that had fallen during the day, so it's another 20-25cm since my report yesterday morning.
Very fine light snow is falling right now, but it is due to ease off sometime this morning (at last!) leaving us with a cloudy afternoon.
Maybe a chance of some sunshine perhaps? Would be nice. Even if we don't get that today, currently the forecast for Wednesday is clear and sunny skies and mild conditions too with temperatures rising to around +5C. High of +3C expected today, and for now it's hanging around 0C.
The 3m solid wall of snow around the building here tells me that we're not going to be worrying about snow base this season! Just regular top-ups now please. (But keep them regular).
All resorts around town will be open and primed for tracks.
Some people ask how come there's so much snow every day but the snow depth numbers are resorts don't increase (or don't increase much)? Probably a variety of reasons including snow getting compacted, melting (when conditions are warmer) and quite possibly some resorts almost wanting to under-report when there's lots of snow. Mentioned this before but as hard as it might be to believe, when there's news of really heavy snowfall some people get put off.
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Official snow depths:
GALA Yuzawa:
390cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama:
350cm
Iwappara:
270cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
230cm
Kagura:
300cm
Kandatsu Kogen:
310cm
Maiko Snow Resort:
340cm (upper)
260cm (lower)
Naeba:
250cm
NASPA Ski Garden:
303cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
290cm (Kogen)
240cm (Nunoba)
Yuzawa Nakazato:
225cm
Yuzawa Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Tuesday 13th January 2015 Total snowfall at base so far 874cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 27 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 315cm reported on 11 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.