Yuzawa Now: Thursday 31st January 2013
- Jan 31, 2013
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 26
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 479cm
Weather overview Cloud and suny
Wind
Slight
Temperature -1C base / -4C top
Visibility
Excellent
Posted at 9:24am on Thursday 31st January 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
The clouds have dispersed for the most part and we are left with a sunny, bright morning here in Yuzawa.
It's mostly blue skies with some very thin wispy like clouds remaining in places this morning. There's just a slight breeze and the temperature is currently around 0C after dipping down to around -6 earlier on in the morning. A high of about 4-5C is forecast later this afternoon. It's looking like tomorrow is going to be more plus alpha. Sunny with things warming up further still.
Come Saturday, it might even be approaching double digit temperatures in the positive, so that's not particulary positive news to hear. Looks like we need to get past this warm spell before we can click back into cold winter like conditions. It still looks like rain is likely on Saturday unfortunately with hopefully a return to snow on Sunday (though we can't expect a major snowfall just yet).
The groomed slopes around town are looking very inviting this morning. And I'm sure it will feel brilliant to be out there on the mountain on a day like today.
Just want to point out the big jump in some of the numbers below for resorts in Minamiuonuma.... there hasn't been a huge amount of snow overnight, the numbers have just not been updated by the resorts for a bit.
Yuzawa Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Thursday 31st January 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 479cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 37 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 45cm (10th December) November 2012 snowfall 8cm reported on 3 days December 2012 snowfall 217cm reported on 15 days January 2013 snowfall 254cm reported on 19 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.