Yuzawa Now: Saturday 15th January 2022
- Jan 15, 2022
- 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 610cm
Posted on Saturday 15th January 2022 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
More snow fell yesterday during the day and there's an additional 10+cm overnight, for a total of 22cm for todays report. We have enjoyed getting a lot of snow over the last few days, so conditions should be really good today. Great to see those snow walls by the side of the road refreshed and bumped up once again.
The Southern Area of GALA Yuzawa is open again from today.
It looks like the Tashiro Area of Kagura is going to be closed. The reason being given seems to be a kind of vague 'staff feeling unwell', and as far as we can tell there's not re-opening date set. Will try to find out more on that today.
Other than that, ski areas should be opening as normal this morning.
A few events are happening today, including a '111th year of skiing in Japan' kind of event at NASPA Ski Garden (today and tomorrow). Various events are lined up involving some celebs types and character mascots appearing.
There is also a bunch of firework displays due to be set off this evening in what is being called 'Yuzawa Nanairo Fuyu Hanabi' (seven colours winter festival) event. Here's the timetable for the fireworks:
6:00pm: GALA Yuzawa
6:30pm: Yuzawa Kogen
7:00pm: Iwappara
7:30pm: NASPA Ski Garden
8:00pm: Ipponsugi
8:30pm: Yuzawa Park
Let's fireworks! The weather is forecast to just be cloudy for this evening. Tomorrow we are probably going to have some clearer and brighter skies with the sun making an appearance in the morning.
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GALA Yuzawa
Official snow depth:
260cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama
Reported snowfall (by the ski area):
10cm
Official snow depth:
260cm
Iwappara
Official snow depth:
220cm
Joetsu Kokusai
Official snow depth:
250cm
Kagura
Reported snowfall (by the ski area):
40cm
Official snow depth:
Top: 300cm
Base: 220cm
Kandatsu Snow Resort
Official snow depth:
230cm
Maiko Snow Resort
Reported snowfall (by the ski area):
10cm
Official snow depth:
270cm (top)
200cm (lower)
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
Official snow depth:
310cm (top)
180cm (base)
Naeba
Official snow depth:
210cm (top)
180cm (base)
NASPA Ski Garden
Official snow depth:
255cm
Yuzawa Kogen
Official snow depth:
250cm (top)
180cm (base)
Yuzawa Nakazato
Official snow depth:
220cm
Yuzawa Park
Official snow depth:
240cm
Yuzawa Now 2021-2022 season |
Data as of Saturday 15th January 2022 Total snowfall at base so far 610cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 28 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 76cm (28th December) November 2021 snowfall 10cm reported on 2 days December 2021 snowfall 311cm reported on 14 days January 2022 snowfall 289cm reported on 12 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.