There's more snow to report, with nearly 40cm on the top areas of the mountain since yesterday morning.

After that beautiful Sunday, I think it's going to be a good start to the week.

Good morning from Nozawa. And what a beautiful Sunday it promises to be.

Here at base as of 8:15am, it is snowing, though just very lightly at the moment.

Yesterday all that new snowfall allowed the ski area to open up more, including runs that connected the top area with base.

Good morning from Nozawa, and I have some very good news this morning.

This morning the ski area is reporting 7cm and 18cm of fresh snow from upper areas (sounds a lot); none from down below early on but there is a bit.

Good morning and happy new year from Nozawa.

It is cloudy, there is some light rain across the region and it is just under 2C at 8am.

After a very fine day yesterday, the ski area is reporting 9-10cm of fresh snow on upper areas overnight.

Early morning cloud, particularly a bunch of low clouds hovering across the valley, but that should clear fairly quickly and it should be another fine day with sunshine expected.

The snow eased off yesterday morning and we even got some clearer weather at moment. I think most people were concentrating on enjoying the fresh snow.

Excellent news to report this morning. Very large amount of new snowfall. It might have taken time to get going, but overnight we got... a lot!

We were all excited about the prospect of heavy snow. We do have snow, though perhaps not as much as we thought we might, certainly now down at base anyway.