Yuzawa Now: Wednesday 20th January 2016
- Jan 20, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 3cm
Snowfall at base this season 137cm
Posted on Wednesday 20th January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Yuzawa.
Yesterday some of the forecasts insisted that it should be snowing all day in Yuzawa, but it was a really beautiful day with lots of blue sky. Some cloud here and there at times, especially later in the afternoon, but for a lot of the day it was blue skies and sunny.
I was waiting until the 10am Niigata report again this morning just to see what they say and pass it on to you...
Having said that, I'm not sure what it is worth at the moment as it seems to have been wrong - and sometimes totally off - for so many days this season so far. It seems that forecasting folk are having real problems forecasting correctly the weather in this particular region.
Last night I was rather excited to see that they were telling us to expect 25-40cm of snow to fall in Yuzawa by 10am this morning.
What we actually got was more a very disappointing 3-5cm. I see our guy in Naeba is reporting 8cm and the resort over there reporting 10cm, but other than that there are no official snowfall numbers to report this morning.
Anyway as of 10am the same Niigata report tells us to expect 15-20cm in the Minamiuonuma and Yuzawa areas today from now until 4pm. It is actually snowing quite heavily just at the moment so let's see if we can get the cm this time.
With some decent snowfall falling in other places on Honshu now, I think it's our turn to get some decent numbers!
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Strong winds is a feature of this morning and it looks like wind is affecting some lift operations around town... only the Mitsumata area of Kagura is open and it looks like the gondola and Okusoeji lifts at Maiko Snow Resort are also affected. There may be some other lifts affected depending on the wind.
In other news it looks like the South Area of the GALA Yuzawa resort is now part open.
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Resort official snow depths (Wednesday 20th January 2016) and any specific news:
All resorts in the area are now generally open for the season, though please note that some areas and courses are not yet open.
Generally some steeper slopes that need more snow are still closed and some lower slopes are patchy, to varying degrees.
Not updated today due to early report.
Resorts in Yuzawa:
GALA Yuzawa
Part of the South Area now open
140cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama
100cm
Iwappara
40cm
Joetsu Kokusai
80cm
Kagura
90cm (Mitsumata)
120cm (Tashiro)
150cm (Kagura)
Kandatsu Kogen
90-110cm
Maiko Snow Resort
90cm (upper)
20cm (lower)
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
80cm
Naeba
90cm
NASPA Ski Garden
70cm
Yuzawa Kogen
90cm
Yuzawa Nakazato
60cm
Yuzawa Park
40cm
Yuzawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Wednesday 20th January 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 137cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 18 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 28cm (28th December) November 2015 snowfall 0cm December 2015 snowfall 92cm reported on 7 days January 2016 snowfall 45cm reported on 11 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.