Yuzawa Now: Saturday 13th January 2024
- Jan 13, 2024
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 22cm
Snowfall at base this seas 240cm
Posted on Saturday 13th January 2024 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
We have fresh snow.
Here's what ski areas are reporting:
Maiko Snow Resort: 20cm
Yuzawa Kogen: 15cm
SnowJapan measuring point in central Yuzawa @ 8:30am: 22cm
SnowJapan measuring point near Ishiuchi @ 8:30am: 14cm
More snow is due today, perhaps heavy at times.
Tomorrow is still due to be clearer skies and sunshine with a return to snow on Monday and Tuesday.
Someone asked about 'new snowfall' numbers...
Unfortunately, most ski areas don't say how much 'new snow' has fallen each day. The ones that regularly do are Maiko Snow Resort and Kagura (though less so this season so far with the latter). Don't know why, but they don't seem to think it is important and just concentrate on their 'snow depth'. The snow depth number almost never increases by as much as the actual amount of snow that has fallen. (Which makes sense, due to grooming etc). And even that number sometimes takes a bit of time to catch up (a one-day delay is common).
It is what it is. If more ski areas reported fresh snowfall numbers every morning, we would add that info to this report. For example, today Yuzawa Kogen are reporting 15cm, so that can be found below.
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GALA Yuzawa
Official snow depth: 120cm
Central & Northern Areas are open
The Northern Area connection with Ishiuchi Maruyama is available
The Southern Area and connection with Yuzawa Kogen is not yet available
Ishiuchi Maruyama
Official snow depth: 95cm
The connection with the Northern Area of GALA Yuzawa is available
Night skiing until 8:00pm
Iwappara
Official snow depth: 40cm
Night skiing until 8:00pm
Joetsu Kokusai
Official snow depth: 120cm (top)
Night skiing until 8:30pm
Kagura
Fresh snowfall (reported by the ski area): ?cm
Official snow depth: 100cm (top), 50cm (base)
Kandatsu Snow Resort
Official snow depth: 80cm
Maiko Snow Resort
Fresh snowfall (reported by the ski area): 20cm
Official snow depth: 150cm (top), 40cm (lower)
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
Official snow depth: 170cm (top), 40cm (base)
Naeba
Official snow depth: 80cm (top), 60cm (base)
Night skiing until 8:30pm
See our Naeba Now report
NASPA Ski Garden
Official snow depth: 80cm
Yuzawa Kogen
Fresh snowfall (reported by the ski area): 15cm
Official snow depth: 50cm
Yuzawa Nakazato Snow Resort
Official snow depth: 80cm
Yuzawa Park
Official snow depth: 70cm
Yuzawa Now 2023-2024 season |
Data as of Saturday 13th January 2024 Total snowfall at base so far 240cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 16 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 55cm (23rd December) November 2023 snowfall 14cm reported on 2 days December 2023 snowfall 137cm reported on 9 days January 2024 snowfall 89cm reported on 5 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.