Yuzawa Now: Thursday 18th February 2016
- Feb 18, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 18cm
Snowfall at base this season 359cm
Posted on Thursday 18th February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Snow started falling yesterday morning.
And it continued through the day - and it was coming down hard as well for quite a lot of the time. Result? Another 18cm of fresh snow outside my place. (I actually thought it would be more than that).
Kagura reported 30cm of fresh snowfall during the day on their blog, and this morning just going with 5-10cm since last night (meaning that if you didn't read the blog bit, you'd think it was just 5-10cm rather than 35-40cm! I know if I had a ski-jo, I'd be shouting out about these numbers especially in a season like this!)
This morning Maiko Snow Resort are reporting 15-20cm of fresh snow.
But anyway, excellent. These snowfalls are what feels like 'normal' for us!
The snow eased off late last night and the skies cleared, leaving us with a beautiful clear blue sky early morning. It's going to be a very fine day with sun forecast and temperatures to rise to perhaps 6-7 degrees.
That means that early tracks this morning should be fantastic pretty much wherever you choose to go - perhaps just more fantastic in higher places.
Depending on just how much it does warm up this afternoon, conditions may change later on. So, get out there early and make the most of it!
Tomorrow should also be generally good clear weather as well by the way.
(I'll deal with the weekend weather in the report tomorrow - in the meantime do take a look at the forecast below for that).
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Resort official snow depths (Wednesday 17th February 2016) and any specific news at time of writing:
Not updated today as it's too early - this data will be updated again tomorrow.
Resorts in Yuzawa:
GALA Yuzawa
180cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama
160cm
Iwappara
160cm
Joetsu Kokusai
150cm
Kagura
160cm (Mitsumata)
190cm (Tashiro)
220cm (Kagura)
Kandatsu Kogen
150-160cm
Maiko Snow Resort
185cm (upper)
75cm (lower)
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
150cm
Naeba
120cm
NASPA Ski Garden
130cm
Yuzawa Kogen
160cm
Yuzawa Nakazato
95cm
Yuzawa Park
100cm
Yuzawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Thursday 18th February 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 359cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 34 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 34cm (10th February) November 2015 snowfall 0cm December 2015 snowfall 92cm reported on 7 days January 2016 snowfall 143cm reported on 18 days February 2016 snowfall 124cm 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.