The clouds lifter yesterday and we ended up with a fine afternoon - by mid afternoon the poor visibility of the morning in places had turned into nice clear views and all was calme.

Just a sprinkling of snow this morning in the village, with resorts around Hakuba and Otari reporting up to 10cm on the upper slopes.

Clearer skies yesterday evening after all that cloud during the day.

It's colder this morning in Hakuba I'm happy to report.

1st February 2013. I can hardly believe it is already February. The time seems to go so fast in winter and while resort skiing and boarding goes on until May in Hakuba, the thought of being in peak season is just mad.

Well todays report isn't going to be too difficult. No new snow to report. The sun is out. Blue skies all around.

Good morning from Hakuba, and welcome to a new week. If you count Monday as the start of the week, of course.

Anyone out there enjoy yesterday? Poor visibility but with snow continuing to come down there were some very very fine snow conditions out there.

The snow continues. It's powder all over the place this morning.

Wow it's a very snowy morning here in Hakuba. It started snowing late afternoon/early evening yesterday and it has obviously been busy at it overnight.

Snow of the heavier variety falling this morning in the village.

Mixed conditions out on the slopes yesterday depending on where you were.

Yesterday we ended up actually seeing the sun for short periods in the afternoon as the general cloudiness eased off somewhat.

It was a blue sky start to the day yesterday but clouds gradually increased as the day went on and by evening we had mostly cloud cover over the mountains.