Yuzawa Now: Sunday 15th December 2013
- Dec 15, 2013
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 41cm
Posted on Sunday 15th December 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Snow is falling in Yuzawa this morning.
After that lovely start to the day yesterday, once again clouds moved in later on and it was snowing by the time Sunday morning came around.
Kagura is reporting 30-40cm of fresh snowfall since yesterday, and I am reporting around 15-20cm in town. Fairly gusty winds means that there's more or less in places so it's difficult to put a number on it. The snow is still coming down now, and the wind is still blowing.
Kagura is also reporting their car park full up at 8:45am, so there's going to be a lot of people up there. Unfortunately strong winds mean that it's only open from the Mitsumta Ropeway to the Kagura Number 1 quad - Tashiro area is closed and so the people who were planning on going there will also be trying to get to Mitsumata.
Naeba seems to be open as planned.
Iwappara are reporting 40cm of fresh snowfall (presumably on upper runs) but also that they now hope to open on Friday 21st.
Yuzawa Nakazato have opened with two lifts moving this morning.
Maiko Snow Resort is open with the Gondola taking you up (and back down) from the upper bowl area where the quad lift is operating.
Yuzawa Kogen are saying that they hope to be open from tomorrow.
I think that's it for the moment - it's often a confusing picture at this time of year when the snow arrives. We always find it curious how some resorts seem almost reluctant to get their 'open' information out there!
Fingers crossed we get more cm today to help these resorts get open. I'll do another round up tomorrow morning.
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Currently open:
Kagura
Naeba
Yuzawa Nakazato
Maiko Snow Resort
Joetsu Kokusai
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Planned resort opening dates for resorts in Yuzawa and Minamiuonuma:
As soon as possible:
Yuzawa Kogen
Nakazato Snow Wood
Muikamachi Ski Resort
December 20th:
Yuzawa Park
Ishiuchi Maruyama
December 21st:
GALA Yuzawa
Ipponsugi
Yuzawa Kogen (Nunoba area)
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
December 28th:
Mt Granview
Yuzawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Sunday 15th December 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 41cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 6 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 10cm (8th, 12th and 15th December) November 2013 snowfall 5cm reported on 1 day December 2013 snowfall 36cm 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.