Yuzawa Now: Tuesday 20th January 2015
- Jan 20, 2015
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 25cm
Snowfall at base this season 949cm
Posted on Tuesday 20th January 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Guess what, it's still snowing.
Yes, snow continues to fall from the skies and continues to build up.
Since yesterday the place where I measure (and the top of the car) has seen an extra 25cm of snowfall.
This morning Kagura report 40cm; 20-40cm reported from Naeba; but get this - Maiko Snow Resort are saying 70cm! I don't know if that's a typo or not, it does seem a lot. But there you go. 25cm itself isn't too bad is it! So for the purpose of the report I'm going to go with what I observed, and that's the 25cm. Keen to get over to Maiko though and check that out!
Anyway, it's still snowing but due to ease up around lunchtime. Tomorrow, sun is forecast! Rare stuff this season. Looks like it should warm up a bit as well. By Thursday/Friday we are expected to be back to snow, with unfortunately the chance of some rain beforehand - at town level anyway.
I'm personally hoping this snow will clear early today and we might get some sun come up this afternoon.
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Unfortunately some fairly strong winds at Kagura are preventing them from fully opening again this morning... just Mitsumata Ropeway to the Kagura Number 1 Romance at the beginning of the day. With weather conditions expected to improve, we might see more open.
Top lifts at Naeba also affected.
Yuzawa Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Tuesday 20th January 2015 Total snowfall at base so far 949cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 32 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 390cm reported on 16 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.