Yuzawa Now: Friday 16th February 2018
- Feb 16, 2018
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 9cm
Snowfall at base this season 748cm
Posted on Friday 16th February 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Yuzawa.
Light snow was falling for lots of the time during the day yesterday though it didn't amount to that much; and I'm happy to report more than was perhaps expected overnight with snow on the ground again this morning. Still not a huge amount but resorts appear to be reporting 5-10cm of snowfall.
Kagura: 5cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama: 10cm
Maiko Snow Resort: 15cm
With a few from yesterday I am measuring 9cm this morning.
Snow isn't expected to keep falling for long this morning, easing off leaving us with just cloudy skies. Maybe if we are lucky a bit of sun later on. That is the forecast.
But actually, as I am about to post this report approaching 8am, there are already some blue skies starting to appear over Minamiuonuma just to the north of Yuzawa and the sun is peeking through... so it may well end up a fine day weather wise.
With that bit of fresh snow, there should be nice conditions to enjoy this morning.
The forecast for the weekend is a return to more snow falling and perhaps some windy/stormy conditions. So come prepared!
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There are a lot of visitors to Yuzawa from overseas at the moment, many of them celebrating the Chinese New Year holidays.
A very Happy Chinese New Year!
This weekend is also the Tokamachi Snow Festival which is always worth a visit if possible with events and impressive snow sculptures. Tokamachi city is about 30km to the north of Yuzawa.
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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
- 300cm
Iwappara
- 190cm
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
- 170cm
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Ski resorts in Minamiuonuma (just to the north of Yuzawa):
Ishiuchi Maruyama
- 250cm
Joetsu Kokusai
- 240cm
Maiko Snow Resort
- Top: 250cm
- Base: 160cm
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
- Closed on Wednesdays until 14th March
- 350cm
Yuzawa Now 2017-2018 season |
Data as of Friday 16th February 2018 Total snowfall at base so far 748cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 47 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 65cm 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.