Yuzawa Now: Thursday 15th February 2018
- Feb 15, 2018
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 739cm
Posted on Thursday 15th February 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
What a beautiful morning yesterday! Clear blue skies and sunshine.
It was fairly mild, rising to around 6C and softening up the snow, and gradually getting cloudy later in the day.
I was woken up just before 2am this morning by some very strong winds - and also unfortunately the sound of rain. Thankfully, it is snowing now as of 7:30am. If I had slept through I may not have known about the rain, though now that I know I can notice that there's less snow on top of my shed this morning.
Kagura are reporting 5cm of fresh snowfall and Maiko Snow Resort are reporting 'a bit' (without a number). Just a think layer around town.
Anyway though it wasn't particularly cold overnight, without the sunshine it should be generally be colder than yesterday during the day today and not rising too much above zero.
The roads are generally looking wet and the snow looks more wet than light, dry and fluffy; but it's certainly better than rain and hopefully we might get some more during the day.
We can probably expect some sunshine during the day tomorrow; forecasts say in particular later on in the day.
And then back to snow over the weekend and colder conditions too so hopefully we can get some nice quality snowfall.
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Ski resorts in Yuzawa:
Checked and updated every morning. Note that some ski resorts may not have updated their own info at the time this report is published.
GALA Yuzawa
- 310cm
Iwappara
- 195cm
Kagura
- Kagura area: 350cm
- Mitsumata area: 250cm
- Tashiro area: 300cm
Kandatsu Kogen
- 240cm
Naeba
- 240cm (base)
NASPA Ski Garden
- 230cm
Yuzawa Kogen
- Top: 280cm
- Base: 230cm
Yuzawa Park
- 180cm
Yuzawa Nakazato
- 165cm
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Ski resorts in Minamiuonuma (just to the north of Yuzawa):
Ishiuchi Maruyama
- 250cm
Joetsu Kokusai
- 250cm
Maiko Snow Resort
- Top: 240cm
- Base: 160cm
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
- Closed on Wednesdays until 14th March
- 350cm
Yuzawa Now 2017-2018 season |
Data as of Thursday 15th February 2018 Total snowfall at base so far 739cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 46 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 60cm (26th January) November 2017 snowfall 14cm reported on 3 days December 2017 snowfall 277cm reported on 16 days January 2018 snowfall 392cm reported on 19 days February 2018 snowfall 56cm reported on 8 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.