Yuzawa Now: Sunday 18th February 2018
- Feb 18, 2018
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 48cm
Snowfall at base this season 796cm
Posted on Sunday 18th February 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Yesterday was an interesting one!
It started snowing, and then it seemed to be clearing up for a bit. There was even a bit of sun for a short while.
But then it really started snowing. Heavy snow at times and by 4pm, over 20cm of it had fallen on the top of the car and probably more in places. It was windy too and some very limited visibility in lots of areas. So it wasn’t the most friendly of weather conditions to say the least.
At around the same time mid afternoon, the local Niigata forecast was predicting a further (up to) 50cm more snowfall before 10am this morning.
Here’s how much fresh snow ski resorts are reporting this morning:
Kagura: 40-50cm
Maiko Snow Resort: 30-40cm (since last night)
Ishiuchi Maruyama: 40cm (since last night)
I can never work out why resorts report just snow 'since last night', rather than 'since last report'. It misses out a chunk of snow during the day...
As of 8am this morning - and including the snow during the day yesterday - I have measured 48cm. There may well be more than that in places as it has been rather windy with the light snow blowing around lots of the time.
But numbers aside --- there's a lot of fresh snowfall!
And it is still snowing this morning, with snow forecast for the day and perhaps also into tomorrow.
Let's see how much more we get out of this.
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GALA Yuzawa is going to be open as normal today.
But it looks like the Tashiro area of Kagura as well as the Kagura Number 1 lift will not be opening due to strong wind conditions (the latter may well open if conditions improve).
Seems like the Gondola at Maiko Snow Resort may well also be delayed opening.
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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
- 350cm
Iwappara
- 240cm
Kagura
- Kagura area: 350cm
- Mitsumata area: 250cm
- Tashiro area: 300cm
Kandatsu Kogen
- 270cm
Naeba
- 250cm (base)
NASPA Ski Garden
- 270cm
Yuzawa Kogen
- Top: 320cm
- Base: 270cm
Yuzawa Park
- 180cm
Yuzawa Nakazato
- 190cm
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Ski resorts in Minamiuonuma (just to the north of Yuzawa):
Ishiuchi Maruyama
- 280cm
Joetsu Kokusai
- 270cm
Maiko Snow Resort
- Top: 280cm
- Base: 180cm
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
- Closed on Wednesdays until 14th March
- 370cm
Yuzawa Now 2017-2018 season |
Data as of Sunday 18th February 2018 Total snowfall at base so far 796cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 48 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 113cm reported on 10 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.