It's a fine morning. Bright and sunny with a very thin layer of cloud, giving us a slightly hazy kind of look.

The snow yesterday didn't amount to much in terms of any new cm, though Hirafu is reporting 3cm.

It definitely feels colder again this morning and some light snow falling now.

A mild day yesterday with temps above zero and there's more of that today. Just warmer than yesterday and it is indeed clearly very mild out there.

A mild day yesterday with temps above zero and there's more of that today. Just warmer than yesterday and it is indeed clearly very mild out there.

I don't have any fresh snowfall to report this morning and the weekend is stating with some fairly overcast kind of skies.

It has been a lovely early morning with largely blue skies and some cloud.

While strong wind is causing lots of lifts to be on hold at the start of the day - only a handful of base lifts are starting up at 8:30am - we do have a nice amount of fresh snow, largely coming from later yesterday and overnight.

Good morning from Niseko and it feels relatively mild outside. Yes, I'm back home and had my toast. All is well.

Good morning from... Sapporo. Yes, I am not in Niseko this morning and so this is a rare 'not first-hand' report.

After the rather (too) mild day yesterday, we have had some fresh snow overnight.

No fresh snow to report this morning and some cloudier skies to start this Sunday morning. In fact, it looks rather poor visibility higher up early on.

We did enjoy snow during the daytime yesterday with ski areas reporting 20-24cm on the mountain.

Another small amount of fresh snow on my measuring point and/but as I write this it is snowing quite nicely out there. Yey.