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Yuzawa Now: Wednesday 29th January 2014

  • Jan 29, 2014
  • 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 433cm

Posted on Wednesday 29th January 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.


So yesterday morning started off clear and sunny with blue skies all round and icy conditions.


It was a very fine morning though by noon thin clouds had started to appear and by mid afternoon it was an overcast and cloudy cover over the region.


By evening we got rained on, but overnight it was snowing.


There's not a huge amount down in town, but resorts around town are this morning reporting around 10cm - with the most up at Kagura which is reporting 20cm of fresh snowfall overnight.


Snowfall has eased off in the last half hour or so, and while it's still very cloudy you can see the sun trying to break through. The forecast is indeed for the snow to ease off, just be cloudy and then some sunshine later on this afternoon. So it looks like that might well be what happens.


As of 9am it was -3C in town, a high of +2 forecast.


Tomorrow is unfortunately likely to be warmer again and by the end of the day it it likely to rain, before turning into snow. Damage limitation please!


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Official resort snow depths @ Wednesday 29th January 2014, AM:

Naeba:

190cm

Kagura (Tashiro):

260cm

Kagura (Mitsumata):

310cm

NASPA Ski Garden:

210cm

Gala Yuzawa:

300cm

Iwappara:

170cm

Yuzawa Kogen:

270cm

Yuzawa Nakazato:

160cm

Yuzawa Park:

160cm

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Maiko Snow Resort:

280cm

Ishiuchi Maruyama:

240cm

Joetsu Kokusai:

220cm



Yuzawa Now 2013-2014 season

Data as of Wednesday 29th January 2014 Total snowfall at base so far 433cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 34 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (11th and 13th January) November 2013 snowfall 5cm reported on 1 day December 2013 snowfall 131cm reported on 14 days January 2014 snowfall 297cm reported on 19 days



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