Yuzawa Now: Tuesday 17th January 2017
- Jan 17, 2017
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 24cm
Snowfall at base this season 430cm
Posted on Tuesday 17th January 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
The headlines this morning: snow clouds remain the region and there's more fresh snow to report.
By evening time last night I measured 19cm of fresh and this morning there's another 5cm, so that makes 24cm observed at town level.
Here's what the resorts are reporting:
Kagura: 20-30cm
Maiko Snow Resort: 10-15cm (since yesterday evening)
We are due snowfall during the day today - more light snow than heavy snow is forecast - and then looks like tomorrow the sun might take over and give us some fine weather. With the fresh snow and potentially fine weather, tomorrow should be top draw!
(Today should be great too of course, just likely limited visibility).
After that looks like Friday night into Saturday is the next decent snowfall.
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I spoke with a manager at one of the ski resorts yesterday and he was (half-joking) that there's now 'too much snow'. Apparently many people stayed away over the weekend due to the heavy snow being heavily featured on the national news. Great for people who made it here and enjoyed such conditions. Anyway I of course told him not to be silly and that we always want more snow.
But on a more serious note, over the last six days or so we have made up for the low-on-snow start to the season.
What we ideally want now is regular top-ups - 30cm or so please, preferably during the night - and maybe a few more storms.
That would be good for nice long fresh season.
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Official snow depth information as of Tuesday 17th January 2017
GALA Yuzawa
Note: South Area currently closed due to avalanche danger. The Central and North areas are open.
Official snow depth: 290cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama
Official snow depth: 250cm
Iwappara
Official snow depth: 195cm
Joetsu Kokusai
Official snow depth: 260cm
Kagura
Official snow depth:
Kagura - 310cm
Mitsumata - 280cm
Tashiro - 260cm
Kandatsu Kogen
Official snow depth: 240cm
Maiko Snow Resort
Official snow depth:
Upper - 270cm
Base - 160cm
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
Official snow depth: 270cm
Naeba
Official snow depth: 200cm
NASPA Ski Garden
Official snow depth: 240cm
Yuzawa Kogen
Official snow depth:
Top - 250cm
Base - 180cm
Yuzawa Park
Official snow depth: 170cm
Yuzawa Nakazato
Official snow depth: 160cm
Yuzawa Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Tuesday 17th January 2017 Total snowfall at base so far 430cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 26 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 72cm (14th January) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day December 2016 snowfall 144cm reported on 14 days January 2017 snowfall 284cm reported on 11 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.