Yuzawa Now: Friday 21st January 2022
- Jan 21, 2022
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 36cm
Snowfall at base this seas 724cm
Posted on Friday 21st January 2022 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
So the snow did start yesterday morning and by this morning there's 38cm of it on the measuring point (that's from yesterday early morning). And it's snowing now and due to continue through the day today. Here's what the ski areas are reporting this morning:
Kagura: 50cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama: 30cm
Hakkaisan: 30cm (good to see them reporting fresh snowfall lately!)
Maiko Snow Resort: 10-30cm
So there's a good 30cm, and probably quite a bit more on the mountains in places.
There is a bit of a wind this morning which is going to stop the Kagura Area of Kagura from opening (Mitsumata is open) and also the top area of Yuzawa Kogen. The Southern Area of GALA Yuzawa is closed due to the large amounts of snow (!).
In good news, the Tashiro Area of Kagura will be re-opening from tomorrow (22nd January).
The forecast says there's a chance of sunshine and calm conditions tomorrow morning. Or at least that this snow storm will have passed. Snow conditions should be great.
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A period of 'quasi state of emergency' starts today in Niigata Prefecture due to rising covid case numbers. What does that actually mean? Well, most people probably don't really know (count me in). It seems to allow governors to ask restaurants and bars to close early and stop or limit the serving of alcohol, and things like that. So perhaps it will be potentially affecting those kind of businesses rather than ski areas directly.
As far as we can tell, as of this morning, there does not seem to be any changes to ski area operations due to this. Whether such a thing affects the number of people coming out to ski... we'll just have to see.
We'll keep an eye out and report anything that we notice.
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GALA Yuzawa
Official snow depth:
300cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama
Reported snowfall (by the ski area):
30cm
Official snow depth:
280cm
Iwappara
Official snow depth:
250cm
Joetsu Kokusai
Official snow depth:
280cm
Kagura
The Tashiro Area will re-open from tomorrow (Saturday 22nd)
Reported snowfall (by the ski area):
50cm
Official snow depth:
Top: 320cm
Base: 240cm
Kandatsu Snow Resort
Official snow depth:
260cm
Maiko Snow Resort
Reported snowfall (by the ski area):
0cm
Official snow depth:
300cm (top)
210cm (lower)
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
Reported snowfall (by the ski area):
30cm
Official snow depth:
320cm (top)
220cm (base)
Naeba
Official snow depth:
250cm (top)
210cm (base)
NASPA Ski Garden
Official snow depth:
235cm
Yuzawa Kogen
Official snow depth:
280cm (top)
200cm (base)
Yuzawa Nakazato
Official snow depth:
240cm
Yuzawa Park
Official snow depth:
250cm
Yuzawa Now 2021-2022 season |
Data as of Friday 21st January 2022 Total snowfall at base so far 724cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 33 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 76cm (28th December) November 2021 snowfall 10cm reported on 2 days December 2021 snowfall 311cm reported on 14 days January 2022 snowfall 403cm reported on 17 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.