Yuzawa Now: Monday 2nd February 2015
- Feb 2, 2015
- 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 1034cm
Posted on Monday 2nd February 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Another 20cm or so of snowfall during the day yesterday, and 15cm to move again this morning - so around 35cm fresh snow since my report yesterday once again.
That takes us to over 10m of snowfall observed here at town level since the beginning of the season. Impressive!
(Kagura only reporting 20cm this morning but I suspect that's just not including snow that fell yesterday. I can't make that number up though... so 20cm it is. Other confirmed number this morning is 20-30cm of fresh at Maiko).
Was rather windy as well for parts of yesterday, and it looks like wind is still with us this morning with the Tashiro area of Kagura once again closed this morning and only part of the main Kagura area open. Once that area finally gets opened up again, there's going to be some amazing untouched conditions up there to enjoy. Tomorrow perhaps?
It's good to see that Gala Yuzawa is able to keep open through stronger wind conditions these days as well.
OK so back down here and it's moderate snowfall still with a moderate wind and limited visibility. Expecting the snowfall to get less later on in the day with cloud and possible snow showers at times tomorrow.
Not a whole lot of clear weather forecast for the coming week - there looks like more of a chance of more snow on the way.
General weather conditions might not be the best today, but there should be no complaints about snow conditions for those making it out!
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Official snow depths:
GALA Yuzawa:
420cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama:
370cm
Iwappara:
290cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
230cm
Kagura:
340cm
Kandatsu Kogen:
340cm
Maiko Snow Resort:
370cm (upper)
300cm (lower)
Naeba:
260cm
NASPA Ski Garden:
365cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
320cm (Kogen)
260cm (Nunoba)
Yuzawa Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Monday 2nd February 2015 Total snowfall at base so far 1034cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 40 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 100cm (15th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 559cm reported on 16 days January 2015 snowfall 420cm reported on 22 days February 2015 snowfall 55cm reported on 2 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.