Them there snow clouds did indeed visit us yesterday after that fine start.

I thought it might be snowing this morning, but the light snow overnight has eased off and clouds have mostly cleared.

I have a fine layer of fresh snow to report to you this morning. The resort is reporting 20-40cm of fresh and I am measuring 26cm.

Just a small amount of snowfall to report with the resort reporting up to 5cm on upper slopes, and it looks like it will be a fine morning.

It's a beautiful morning here in Nozawa. Some cloud to be seen but not over our mountain; a bit of low cloud hanging around lower areas, but that will surely disappear quickly.

Something of a very nice surprise this morning with some very decent snowfall on the ground by base and the resort itself reporting between 20cm and 40cm of fresh snow.

After a break in the snow falling yesterday and some sunshine breaking through.

It is a cold morning again but it feels like we are now past the peak of that storm we have had.

We're still in the middle of this mid-winter storm with snowy, cold and somewhat windy conditions continuing.

By 3pm yesterday the resort was reporting 10-18cm of fresh snowfall across the mountain and this morning and extra 10-20cm.

It's really very cold this morning. Possibly and probably the coldest of the season.

Did you see that news about the eruption over in Kusatsu yesterday?! Yikes. Nozawa is unaffected - more on that situation below.

Did you see the images from the Kanto area last night with all that snow falling in Tokyo? It's amazing how just 5-10cm or so can cause so many problems.

After that clear start to the day yesterday, clouds did move in and...