Yuzawa Now: Wednesday 24th December 2014
- Dec 24, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 482cm
Posted on Wednesday 24th December 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Mostly cloudy over the region, some quite dark clouds there early on as well.
Yesterday it was snowing on and off for most of the day and into the evening, though the kind of snow that didn't end up with much in terms of new cm on the ground. There were a few times when blue skies appeared as well, only to be fairly quickly covered again by the clouds.
Fairly hard packed snow conditions on lower slopes yesterday afternoon and a bit icy - it felt pretty cold out there - so while there's still a large amount of snow delivered to the area. Perhaps Santa could help rather than skiing around! And perhaps he will. While today is expected to be quite mild and temperatures rising to maybe around 6 degrees early afternoon, it should be getting cold by evening and hopefully snow falling by the end of the day (though some local forecasts give us the chance of rain before snow). After that, snow for all of tomorrow, so bring it on Mr Christmas.
I'm posting the report too early this morning to catch the official snow depth number updates and so most of those are as they were yesterday.
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Official snow depths:
GALA Yuzawa:
230cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama:
200cm
Iwappara:
165cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
160cm
Kagura:
230cm
Kandatsu Kogen:
190cm
Maiko Snow Resort:
190cm
Naeba:
150cm
NASPA Ski Garden:
160cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
200cm (Kogen)
150cm (Nunoba)
Yuzawa Nakazato:
130cm
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Planned opening dates for resorts in Yuzawa Town and Minamiuonuma City (by date):
All resorts not noted here are now at least part open.
Thursday 25th December:
Hakkaisanroku
Saturday 27th December:
Ishiuchi Hanaoka
Late December
Mt Granview
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Data as of Wednesday 24th December 2014 Total snowfall at base so far 482cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 12 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 100cm (15th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 482cm 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.