Yuzawa Now: Tuesday 8th January 2019
- Jan 8, 2019
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 11cm
Snowfall at base this season 393cm
Posted on Tuesday 8th January 2019 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
It was falling fairly heavily at times during the day yesterday, ending up with 9cm of fresh snow measured at town level by 5pm. This morning there is an additional 2cm, so 11cm to add to the reports today.
Kagura this morning are reporting about 3cm of snowfall and Ishiuchi Maruyama are reporting 10cm.
It's... still snowing. Well, actually, it was until not too long ago. In the last hour or so, rather quickly clouds have been clearing with some blue sky opening up in places. I wonder how long that will last and it might get clearer and brighter.
Milder conditions are on the forecast for today with light snow this afternoon - borderline sleet or even perhaps rain in places just to the north of Yuzawa; hopefully we can avoid that. Even if that happens though, it shouldn't last too long - as we should be back to snow pretty quickly, with heavy snow still due overnight tonight and into tomorrow. Stay cold please!
Beyond that there is some sun on the forecasts. We haven't seen much of that in the last few weeks so it will be good to see. Especially if we get that heavy snow tonight.
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The Gondola at Maiko Snow Resort has been having some kind of technical problems since yesterday and they are still checking it out. It will be closed for the day today - though that doesn't affect the courses open at the resort, which otherwise is open as normal. (Take the two quads to get up to the top area).
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All ski resorts in the area are open (either fully open or close to fully open).
Ski resorts in Yuzawa:
GALA Yuzawa
- 280cm (official snow depth)
- All three Areas of GALA Yuzawa are now open (a few parts of the Northern and Southern not yet open)
Iwappara
- 180cm (official snow depth)
Kagura
- Kagura area: 260cm (official snow depth)
- Mitsumata area: 220cm (official snow depth)
- Tashiro area: 240cm (official snow depth)
Kandatsu Kogen
- 180cm (official snow depth)
Naeba
- 160cm (official snow depth)
- Please see our Naeba Now report for daily updates from Naeba
NASPA Ski Garden
- 270cm (official snow depth)
Yuzawa Kogen
- Top: 230cm (official snow depth)
- Base: 160cm (official snow depth)
Yuzawa Park
- 175cm (official snow depth)
Yuzawa Nakazato
- 160cm (official snow depth)
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Ski resorts in Minamiuonuma - just to the north of Yuzawa:
Ishiuchi Maruyama
- 250cm (official snow depth)
Joetsu Kokusai
- 220cm (official snow depth)
Maiko Snow Resort
- Top: 250cm (official snow depth)
- Base: 160cm (official snow depth)
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
- 200cm (official snow depth)
Yuzawa Now 2018-2019 season |
Data as of Tuesday 8th January 2019 Total snowfall at base so far 393cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 21 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 50cm (29th December) November 2018 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day December 2018 snowfall 253cm reported on 13 days January 2019 snowfall 138cm reported on 7 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.