Yuzawa Now: Wednesday 21st November 2012
- Nov 21, 2012
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 26
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 3cm
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Posted at 10:10am on Wednesday 21st November 2012 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Morning from Yuzawa. Another dusting of snow overnight though with the last few days seeing the snow line move back up the mountain after that fall last week, we are still looking mid-season with autumn colours still on show on the lower mountains.
This was mentioned on the Naeba Now report yesterday, but Kagura have confirmed their intentions to open on Friday 23rd - the day after tomorrow! Get to Kagura on Friday and be at the Mitsumata Ropeway between 2pm and 4pm and you might be on for some free 'tonjiru' soup and 'oshiruko'. How about that then?!
So Mitsumata Ropeway will be operating from 8am on Friday and then people will have to take a shuttle bus from the top ropeway station to the base of the Kagura Gondola. The Kagura Gondola will then take people up to the main Kagura area of the resort where 1500m of course should be open. They are even planning on having some of the 'Kagura Park' facility up and running from day 1.
Exciting times. There's not a great deal of snow on the week long forecast at the moment, even at Kagura. But it does seem like they have enough and each day now the snow making machines are busy pumping out some man-made snow to help things along on top of the natural snow.
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Data as of Thursday 15th November 2012 Total snowfall at base so far 3cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 2 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 2cm (21st November) November 2012 snowfall 3cm |
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.