Yuzawa Now: Thursday 21st March 2013
- Mar 21, 2013
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 26
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 756cm
Weather overview Cloud, snow
Wind
Moderate
Temperature 0C base / -4C top
Visibility
Fair to poor
Posted at 8:55am on Thursday 21st March 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Yesterday evening was nice and clear until later on when it started to rain heavily. But the brilliant news this morning is that it is snowing and there's over 5cm of fresh snow in Yuzawa and up to 10cm on the slopes. It's still snowing - and actually coming down quite nicely at the moment - so while it's forecast to not last long, we can just hope for as much as possible before then!
Great to see snow falling again though and the accompanying colder temperatures.
So yes the forecast says this afternoon it'll just be cloudy, but it will stay fairly cold all day. Right now it's around 0 degrees.
Forecast for tomorrow is clear and sunny conditions and temps to rise up back to around 10 degrees in the daytime, so let's enjoy this return of winter while it lasts!
Oh yes, strong winds are preventing the Tashiro part of Kagura from opening today. So limited operations at Kagura. Other resorts seem unaffected and open as normal.
Yuzawa Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Thursday 21st March 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 756cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 58 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 45cm (10th December) November 2012 snowfall 8cm reported on 3 days December 2012 snowfall 217cm reported on 15 days January 2013 snowfall 254cm reported on 19 days February 2013 snowfall 238cm reported on 16 days March 2013 snowfall 39cm reported on 5 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.