Not a lot of snow up to know, but that snow is coming down very nicely. Myoko style (and its been a while since we’ve seen this kind of good, solid snowfall).

One last day of making a highly educated guess here (the flu must not win!) but one aided with at least one ruler-augmented poke in the snow, if not in the formal snow plot.

Better than the Niigata Prefecture forecast of 2cm for the morning.

Suginohara are reporting up to 10cm of fresh snow in the places where there's the most, and Akakura are reporting 3cm of fluffy snow.

Yesterday was one of the most insane weather days I’ve seen.

Another sunny day, after some nice, if not particularly heavy snowfall through late afternoon and into the night.

It is really beautiful out there today, with an almost perfect blue sky to start out the day.

Talk about an underwhelming snowfall: maybe 70cm, the TV was saying.

Nice snowfall overnight; once again the official Niigata Prefecture prediction was just about right on the money (forecast of 35cm; actual at base 32cm).

Real Myoko snow! More than 50cm on the ground this morning, and the snow keeps on falling,

Needle-like snow falling earlier today, but turning to more Myoko-like big flakes.

A little break in the snow today, with sun and half-blue skies. Not that much additional snow, but with the cold temperatures it fell as nice big snowflaky flakes.

Light snow with 22cm on the ground. It is still cold and still snowing, but feels like it is getting brighter.

More snow than expected overnight; it was cold and quiet late last evening, and blowing and snowy early this morning, with 40 cm in a quiet spot and lots of blowing elsewhere.