Yuzawa Now: Friday 16th January 2015
- Jan 16, 2015
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 879cm
Posted on Friday 16th January 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
It's another cloudy morning here.
Yesterday afternoon it did start... snowing. Very wet snow, sleety snow, but not much later after it started there was a thin layer of white on the ground once again. It continued overnight by the looks and there's just over 5cm on the top of my car this morning. It's far from being the driest powder, for sure, but better than rain! I would expect better conditions the higher you go this morning.
Maiko reports just a bit of snow, Naeba reports 5-10cm and Kagura is reporting 10-15cm this morning. So I'd say dusting-5cm at lower areas and up to 15cm higher up.
So it's cloudy and grey to start the day off, but a few small signs to the north that in places it might just clear a bit. False alarms perhaps, and indeed the forecast is for cloudy conditions for today and temperatures to remain around 1C or 2C.
Naeba seem to be saying there's moderate wind at summit over there, but not affecting lifts. All resorts appear to be opening as normal.
Snowfall is expected again before the day ends and overnight into tomorrow. It should be getting colder as well tomorrow and with a potentially decent amount to fall conditions should be good tomorrow morning.
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Official snow depths (some not updated today due to early report):
GALA Yuzawa:
380cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama:
320cm
Iwappara:
245cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
230cm
Kagura:
300cm
Kandatsu Kogen:
230cm
Maiko Snow Resort:
315cm (upper)
230cm (lower)
Naeba:
250cm
NASPA Ski Garden:
303cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
290cm (Kogen)
240cm (Nunoba)
Yuzawa Nakazato:
215cm
Yuzawa Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Friday 16th January 2015 Total snowfall at base so far 879cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 28 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 100cm (15th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 559cm reported on 16 days January 2015 snowfall 320cm 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.