Yuzawa Now: Sunday 1st February 2015
- Feb 1, 2015
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 20cm
Snowfall at base this season 999cm
Posted on Sunday 1st February 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
That bit of blue sky and sun yesterday morning while I was writing the report quickly disappeared and we were left with a day of snow falling and moderate to sometimes quite strong winds.
The Niigata forecast said we could expect up to 50cm of fresh snowfall overnight and indeed that is what Kagura is reporting (40-50cm) this morning but less so down here in town. Maiko Snow Resort are reporting 20-30cm of snow, while there's 20cm of fresh outside my place here since my report yesterday. So it looks like one of those days when higher up Kagura and the Naeba area gets a fair bit more than we did in town - and I would say there have been less of those this season than usual.
Still, 20-30cm of fresh sounds good to me so snow conditions should be good this morning everywhere.
Not the friendliest of conditions this morning though... it's still snowing now and a look round the webcams shows pretty much white-out conditions in most places at the beginning of the day. It's not looking like it is going to give up anytime soon with the snow clouds due to still be over the region through tomorrow.
Cold at around -3C as of 8am and a moderate wind likely during the day. Unfortunately the wind is preventing the Tashiro area of Kagura to open again this morning and it's limited at Kagura via Mitsumata as well.
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Official snow depths:
GALA Yuzawa:
410cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama:
360cm
Iwappara:
265cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
230cm
Kagura:
340cm
Kandatsu Kogen:
340cm
Maiko Snow Resort:
340cm (upper)
270cm (lower)
Naeba:
260cm
NASPA Ski Garden:
305cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
320cm (Kogen)
260cm (Nunoba)
Yuzawa Nakazato:
225cm
Yuzawa Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Sunday 1st February 2015 Total snowfall at base so far 999cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 39 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 420cm reported on 22 days February 2015 snowfall 20cm reported on 1 day |
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.