Yuzawa Now: Sunday 2nd February 2020
- Feb 2, 2020
- 4 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 4cm
Snowfall at base this seas 145cm
Posted on Sunday 2nd February 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
It was snowing for lots of yesterday so it is kind of surprising to see that Kagura are reporting just 1cm of new snowfall and Maiko Snow Resort are reporting 5cm.
We measured 4cm since the report yesterday here at Yuzawa base.
Yesterday things felt much more like what we expect and it was (of course) really great to see that fresh snowfall and some really nice conditions to enjoy especially higher.
This morning there has been some light snow falling early on but now it is generally cloudy with some blue skies to be seen in some directions.
It should be keeping fairly cold, though tomorrow might be a bit milder again. I am happy to see that beyond tomorrow colder conditions should be back along with more snowfall - the most likely around Wednesday. Sounds good to me. Let's get those mid-winter weather patterns clicked into gear!
The fresh snow over these last few days has definitely been a relief for everyone.
Big picture - all ski resorts are still not all fully open, so we are still in need of more.
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GALA Yuzawa
- All of the Central Area and Northern Area courses are open
- The Eliza and Batman courses in the Southern Area are open
- The Ropeway connecting GALA Yuzawa with Yuzawa Kogen is operating
- Take the Gondola back down at the end of the day (Falcon downhill course not yet available)
- Official snow depth: 140cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama
- Access via all base Entrance areas available
- 18 courses open
- Official snow depth: 120cm (upper); 80cm (mid)
Iwappara
- 6 lifts are operating with the central to upper area of the resort open
- Official snow depth: 60cm
Joetsu Kokusai
- 11 lifts operating
- 10 courses open (mostly the Panorama and Atema areas)
- Official snow depth: 80cm
Kagura
- All areas of Kagura are normally open
- 21 of 23 courses open
- The Dragondola connecting with Naeba is operating
- Official snow depth: 160cm
Kandatsu Snow Resort
- All lifts plan to be operating
- Official snow depth: 125cm
Maiko Snow Resort
- The Gondola, Nagamine Number 2 quad and top Okusoechi lifts are operating with 12 courses open on that gondola side.
- Take the Gondola back down to base.
- The Maiko Area is open with 1 lift operating and 3 courses open.
- Official snow depth: 100cm (upper); 15cm (base)
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
- Ropeway and Number 1 and 3 lifts operating
- 8 of 14 courses open
- Official snow depth: 150cm
Naeba
- 21 of 22 courses open
- Official snow depth: 80cm
- Details on Naeba Now report here
NASPA Ski Garden
- All lifts are operating
- All courses are open
- Kids Garden open
- Mogul and Slopestyle areas not open
- Official snow depth: 70cm
Yuzawa Kogen
- Yuzawa Ropeway operating
- All Kogen lifts now operating and Kogen Snowland is open
- The base Family lift is planned to be operating; the base Nunoba area is not open
- The Ropeway connecting Yuzawa Kogen with the Southern Area of GALA Yuzawa is operating
- Official snow depth: 80cm (Kogen); 10cm (base)
Yuzawa Nakazato
- Number 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 lifts operating
- Official snow depth: 40cm
Yuzawa Park
- Number 1 and 7 lifts operating
- Official snow depth: 40cm
Yuzawa Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Sunday 2nd February 2020 Total snowfall at base so far 145cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 20 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 15cm (5th and 21st January) November 2019 snowfall 12cm reported on 1 day December 2019 snowfall 27cm reported on 7 days January 2020 snowfall 88cm reported on 10 days February 2020 snowfall 18cm 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.