It's a cold morning here in Nozawa but the sun is out and we are treated to beautiful blue skies, something of a contrast with yesterday.

Uenotaira area of Nozawa reports over 50cm of snowfall since yesterday morning, with at least 30cm of fresh fallen across the mountain.

Snow awaited me though with a nice layer of new snow on the ground - resort reporting up to 35cm in places since yesterday morning.

Not the snowfall I was hoping for overnight, but it has started and the resort is reporting up to 7cm on Uenotaira... just 1cm at Yamabiko.

It's another very cold morning here in Nozawa and I have more fresh to report too... since yesterday the resort is reporting 15-23cm of fresh snow across the mountain.

Back to a Monday morning after a very busy and lively weekend in Nozawa.

It's a beauty of a morning in Nozawa and by the looks of it in wider areas as well.

Good morning from a snowy Nozawa. Not heavy snow but a bit of snow, the resort reporting up to 20cm on upper slopes, 10cm mid mountain and just a bit at base.

Few cm of snow on the mountain since yesterday (up to 10cm higher up, just a bit lower down) and mixed weather conditions at 8am this morning.

Hello from Nozawa, I was in Nagano city yesterday and just made my way back to Nozawa mid-morning.... where it's snowing lightly at the moment.

More snow in Nozawa to report this morning as the complete mountain-wide refresh continues.

A good morning it is and a fine start to February. Yes, these are the kinds of days that I particularly enjoy reporting on.

It has been snowing in Nozawa and apparently still is snowing higher up on the mountain now, but for the moment it's just generally kind of cloudy here at base.

It's a cold morning and just cloudy conditions at the moment. Some forecasts say we'll see some of the sun today and I reckon they may be right.