Yuzawa Now: Saturday 22nd March 2014
- Mar 22, 2014
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 35cm
Snowfall at base this season 828cm
Posted on Saturday 22nd March 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Yesterday was something of a wild day! Strong winds and snow, wet at first but bigger fluffier flakes later on, it felt like mid winter again. We even had a spell when the Kanetsu expressway was closed causing a bit of congestion but that was cleared up by the end of the day.
It's difficult to put a number on how much snow there was because of the wind as well, but I had to move about 20cm off the top of the car in the evening and there's another 15-20cm this morning. So I make that 35-40cm. Resorts around town are saying up to 40cm of fresh snow as well.
(Kagura are confusing me somewhat - they reported 20-30cm yesterday, and they are reporting 40cm 'until this morning'. So it's not clear whether that's a total of 60-70cm, or a total of 40cm. I'm guessing the former but on calling them the person on the line didn't know, and - guess what - the official snow depth number hasn't budged by a cm! Whatever the reality.... there's a lot of fresh snow up there).
This is all of course excellent for mid-late March and it will have really patched over that icy stuff we had two days ago.
The snow has stopped now, it's a chilly morning and there's more and more blue sky over the region. Should be a fine day for both snow and weather.
People in the region today will be feeling very lucky with the timing. Excite!
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Official resort snow depths @ Saturday 22nd March 2014, AM:
Naeba:
240cm
Kagura (Tashiro):
300cm
Kagura (Mitsumata):
350cm
NASPA Ski Garden:
275cm
Gala Yuzawa:
360cm
Iwappara:
215cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
260cm
Yuzawa Nakazato:
180cm
Yuzawa Park:
220cm
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Maiko Snow Resort:
280cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama:
270cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
200cm
Yuzawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Saturday 22nd March 2014 Total snowfall at base so far 828cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 63 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (11th, 13th January and 7th March) November 2013 snowfall 5cm reported on 1 day December 2013 snowfall 131cm reported on 14 days January 2014 snowfall 297cm reported on 19 days February 2014 snowfall 204cm reported on 17 days March 2014 snowfall 191cm reported on 12 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.