Yuzawa Now: Saturday 3rd March 2018
- Mar 3, 2018
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 854cm
Posted on Saturday 3rd March 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
There was more light snowfall during the day on and off yesterday and it didn’t really amount to much in terms of new cm, and there was even some sunshine at times in places. It remained quite cold too and didn’t get too far above zero which was a good thing. Visitors for the weekend (and the ski resorts themselves) will be thankful for that delivery of snow after what we got yesterday!
This morning, it is sunshine from the start. A beautiful day is on the cards.
We have been expecting warmer conditions this weekend and it still looks like what we are going to get. By lunchtime it might be as warm as 10C in town as the sun gets to work.
On Sunday the freezing level will zoom right up to around 3500m and we might experience temperatures even above 15C! That’s going to melt some snow and boggle some minds.
Very happily, come Monday it should start getting colder and we might get some fresh. Possibly even heavy snow in higher elevations. That’s more like it!
It’s the 66th Yuzawa Snow Festival in town tonight. If you are interested in checking it out, head over to the West side of the station and follow the people towards Yuzawa Kogen and the Nunoba slopes. Festivities are due to begin at 6pm with fireworks around 8:40pm.
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Ski resorts in Yuzawa:
Checked and updated every morning. Note that some ski resorts may not have updated their own info at the time this report is published.
GALA Yuzawa
- 320cm
Iwappara
- 185cm
Kagura
- Kagura area: 370cm
- Mitsumata area: 270cm
- Tashiro area: 320cm
Kandatsu Kogen
- 240cm
Naeba
- 250cm (base)
NASPA Ski Garden
- 220cm
Yuzawa Kogen
- Top: 290cm
- Base: 220cm
Yuzawa Park
- 170cm
Yuzawa Nakazato
- 170cm
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Ski resorts in Minamiuonuma (just to the north of Yuzawa):
Ishiuchi Maruyama
- 250cm
Joetsu Kokusai
- 220cm
Maiko Snow Resort
- Top: 240cm
- Base: 130cm
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
- Closed on Wednesdays until 14th March
- 370cm
Yuzawa Now 2017-2018 season |
Data as of Saturday 3rd March 2018 Total snowfall at base so far 854cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 55 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 60cm (26th January) November 2017 snowfall 14cm reported on 3 days December 2017 snowfall 277cm reported on 16 days January 2018 snowfall 392cm reported on 19 days February 2018 snowfall 162cm reported on 15 days March 2018 snowfall 9cm 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.