Yuzawa Now: Wednesday 13th January 2016
- Jan 13, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 123cm
Posted on Wednesday 13th January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
It's a stunner of a morning here in Yuzawa.
Yesterday saw clouds moving in gradually after the fine start and even an attempt at snow falling. In keeping with the 'odd' theme to the season so far, on the news we saw that Tokyo got a bit of snowfall and there was also fairly heavy snow falling to the north of us in Niigata City. It's wasted up there, bring it down here...
This morning the clouds are still feeling some kind of allergy to our valley - once again staying to the north of our region - and we have clear blue skies all around. Beautiful! The sun is out and it's just a beautiful morning - the kind we would really be loving if we had a few more metres of snow lying around!
The really good thing this morning other than the views is that it is cold.
It was cold last night and it is cold this morning. And there was actually a dusting of snow around places as well as a frost early so hopefully that might translate into some cm on upper areas. On checking it looks like Kagura are reporting just a dusting while Maiko Snow Resort are reporting 2-3cm.
The varied forecasts all agree that we should get some fresh snow tomorrow, but disagree on when it might arrive - this afternoon? tonight? tomorrow?
I'll give you the latest of course tomorrow morning.
For now though it's a very fine morning to be out on the slopes.
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Resort official snow depths (Wednesday 13th January 2016) and any specific news:
All resorts in the area are now generally open for the season, though please note that some areas and courses are not yet open.
Generally steeper slopes that need more snow are still closed and some lower slopes are patchy.
Resorts in Yuzawa:
GALA Yuzawa
140cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama
80cm
Iwappara
40cm
Joetsu Kokusai
70cm
Kagura
90cm (Mitsumata)
120cm (Tashiro)
150cm (Kagura)
Kandatsu Kogen
105cm
Maiko Snow Resort
90cm (upper)
20cm (lower)
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
80cm
Naeba
70cm
NASPA Ski Garden
65cm
Yuzawa Kogen
90cm
Yuzawa Nakazato
60cm
Yuzawa Park
30cm
Yuzawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Wednesday 13th January 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 123cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 13 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 28cm (28th December) November 2015 snowfall 0cm December 2015 snowfall 92cm reported on 7 days January 2016 snowfall 31cm 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.