Yuzawa Now: Friday 21st December 2012
- Dec 21, 2012
- 3 min read
Updated: Jan 26
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 150cm
Weather overview Cloud, fine
Wind
Slight
Temperature 1C base / -5C top
Visibility
Good
Posted at 8:22pm on Friday 21st December 2012 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Sorry for the delay, I was planning on posting this earlier.
It has been a generally bright day here in Yuzawa, no new snowfall since this morning and perhaps just a chance of a thin layer overnight tonight - up to 5cm higher on the mountains.
It is a chilly evening, around 1 degrees at the moment and not quite icy on the roads. It probably won't dip below zero tonight and unfortunately it does look like it will rain tomorrow around town and in lower areas. Hopefully not too heavy, not too long, and hopefully it will be snow.... but things are going to keep quite mild for the weekend. We'll just have to see the cards that nature deals come tomorrow. Higher up would certainly be the place to be to have the best chance of good conditions.
Sunday is looking more promising and we have been talking about the chance of some decent snowfall. It still looks to be on, perhaps later in the day and into Monday when it should be colder.
Tomorrow is the first day of the season for GALA Yuzawa, NASPA Ski Garden and Ipponsugi in Yuzawa as well as Muikamachi Hakkaisan and Chateua Shiozawa in neighbouring Minamiuonuma - leaving only a few skijo in the region yet to open.
Resorts around town have been in 'part open' mode, though for this weekend and going into Christmas they will be trying to open up as much as possible. While cover is good, we're still fairly thin on the ground snow-wise, and so everyone is looking forward to that dump of fresh snow to let more open up.
Official resort snow depths
Mt Naeba:
100cm
Kagura:
200cm
Kandatsu Kogen:
120cm
Iwappara:
90cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
90cm
Yuzawa Nakazato:
70cm
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Centleisure Maiko:
125cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
130cm
Planned resort openings
22nd December
Gala Yuzawa
NASPA Ski Garden
Ipponsugi
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
Chateau Shiozawa
23rd December
Itsukamachi
Hakkaisanroku
Late December
Yuzawa Kogen
Ludens Yuzawa
Mt Granview
Ishiuchi Hanaoka
Yuzawa Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Friday 21st December 2012 Total snowfall at base so far 150cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 12 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 45cm (10th December) November 2012 snowfall 8cm reported on 3 days December 2012 snowfall 142cm reported on 9 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.