Yuzawa Now: Saturday 22nd December 2012
- Dec 22, 2012
- 3 min read
Updated: Jan 26
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 150cm
Weather overview Cloud, rain in places, light snow higher up
Wind
Slight
Temperature 1C base / -5C top
Visibility
Good
Posted at 10:07am on Saturday 22nd December 2012 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
It has been a cloudy start to the day in Yuzawa with some rain falling earlier on but holding off as I write this report. It's a mild 5C at the moment and rain is forecast today still and so there is a good chance of that happening... indeed it is actually raining now in Minamiuonuma.
It seems that we now have all ski resorts in Yuzawa at least part open, with just a few yet to open to the north in Minamiuonuma.
As I mentioned last night resorts are trying to open up as much as possible. Kagura has been near-fully open for a while now, and from today most of Naeba will be open. Iwappara are running all their lifts this morning and all courses on their slopes open.
Gala Yuzawa also opens today with all of the Central Area and part of both the North and South Areas open - all lifts are moving apart from the one pair lift in the North Area.
Most of the skiers-only NASPA Ski Garden, which also opens for the first time today, is also open from the go.
All in all, we're doing pretty good I'd say. It is always a relief for the ski resorts to be able to open before Christmas and with so much open as well... there have been years when it has been much more limited at this time of year.
Everything is set.
So let's bring on the crazy snowfall!
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
Ishiuchi Maruyama: 90cm
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 Saturday 22nd 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.