Yuzawa Now: Monday 22nd February 2016
- Feb 22, 2016
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 364cm
Posted on Monday 22nd February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Hello and good morning from Yuzawa where there's some fresh snow on the ground.
We had to put up with rain for quite a bit of yesterday down in town level though I hear it was snowing at times at higher elevations.
Down here as well it was trying to snow at times, and by evening it eventually did turn into snow - and we have 5cm of new snow on the ground this morning.
Maiko Snow Resort are reporting 5-10cm of snowfall and Kagura are reporting 5cm, so it looks like you can expect around 5cm of fresh out there on the slopes this morning. Obviously that's not as much as we would have liked and not enough to totally refresh conditions, but an improvement.
It has still been snowing since I got up, but is expected to ease off any time now leaving us with a mostly cloudy day.
We might get to see some sunshine tomorrow morning along with the seemingly ever-present 'warmer than average' temperatures, rising to around +6 or +7C.
Good news is we should be back to snow on Wednesday and some decent snowfall is currently on the forecast for later on Friday as well, so fingers crossed!
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Recently it has been getting noticeable how the days appear to be getting longer and it getting darker later on.
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Resort official snow depths (Monday 22nd February 2016) and any specific news at time of writing:
Resorts in Yuzawa:
GALA Yuzawa
160cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama
120cm
Iwappara
130cm
Joetsu Kokusai
160cm
Kagura
160cm (Mitsumata)
190cm (Tashiro)
220cm (Kagura)
Kandatsu Kogen
120-140cm
Maiko Snow Resort
165cm (upper)
60cm (lower)
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
160cm
Naeba
120cm
NASPA Ski Garden
110cm
Yuzawa Kogen
140cm
Yuzawa Nakazato
90cm
Yuzawa Park
90cm
Yuzawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Monday 22nd February 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 364cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 35 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 34cm (10th February) November 2015 snowfall 0cm December 2015 snowfall 92cm reported on 7 days January 2016 snowfall 143cm reported on 18 days February 2016 snowfall 129cm reported on 10 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.