Yuzawa Now: Monday 18th March 2013
- Mar 18, 2013
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 26
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 751cm
Weather overview Cloud
Wind
Strong on mountains
Temperature 10C base / 5C top
Visibility
Good
Posted at 8:34am on Monday 18th March 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from a cloudy and rather windy Yuzawa.
So much so that some resorts are going to be closed today due to the wind conditions -- all of Kagura is closed and GALA Yuzawa also. The upper parts of Naeba are closed early on and Yuzawa Kogen may also be affected. Looks like the Gondola at Maiko Snow Resort is also resting this morning, but the quad up to the bowl seems to be open.
It's already close to 10C here in town and likely to warm up to around 16 degrees today. Winter is seeming further and further away, and unfortunately there doesn't seem much chance of a late March blast of winter - not for the moment on the weekly forecast anyway. Late March snow has been known to happen though.... (he says hoping).
We do still have a lot of snow around, there's no bare patches and many resorts are reporting 2+m still.
Anyway, possibly rain later today but hopefully by tomorrow morning conditions will have calmed down.
Yuzawa Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Monday 18th March 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 751cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 57 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 45cm (10th December) November 2012 snowfall 8cm reported on 3 days December 2012 snowfall 217cm reported on 15 days January 2013 snowfall 254cm reported on 19 days February 2013 snowfall 238cm reported on 16 days March 2013 snowfall 34cm reported on 4 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.