Yuzawa Now: Tuesday 15th January 2013
- Jan 15, 2013
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 26
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 20cm
Snowfall at base this season 339cm
Weather overview Cloud, snow
Wind
Moderate wind
Temperature -3C base / -8C top
Visibility
Poor
Posted at 9:20am on Tuesday 15th January 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
It felt strange watching the Japanese news last night with heavy snowfall in Tokyo and other areas. A very large number of people being inconveniences by snow that they don't expect. Looking at the reports, more snow had fallen in central Tokyo than in Yuzawa. Very strange - one of those 'what's wrong with this picture?' moments!
Here we just had 5-10cm of wet, heavy snow by the end of the day.
This morning is a different story though and it feels like a proper Snow Country kind of morning. Nice big flakes of snow are coming down from the skies with some real speed and purpose at the moment. This is what we like to see.
I had to move 20cm of snow this morning and with the way it is falling right now I expect that to quickly increase. Around town resorts are reporting about 20-30cm of new snowfall, Naeba saying up to 40cm has fallen since yesterday.
Resorts seem to begenerally open as normal except the top areas of Naeba and the Tashiro part of Kagura.
Very poor visibility out though even low down in town and with some strong winds as well it's not the most hospitably of conditions. The snowfall is forecast to continue into tomorrow morning.
Yuzawa Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Tuesday 15th January 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 339cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 27 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 45cm (10th December) November 2012 snowfall 8cm reported on 3 days December 2012 snowfall 217cm reported on 15 days January 2013 snowfall 114cm reported on 9 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.