Good morning from Nozawa. What a fine day yesterday was!

I have very good news this morning.

Oh yes this is much better!

I'm staying inside today as we wait for fresh snow to, er, freshen things up.

Rain, rain go away... come back another day.

It certainly was not a great weekend of weather for our snow, but at least this morning it is noticeable colder and the ski area is reporting 8cm of fresh snow on the top Yamabiko area.

Fine weather this morning and that is what we expect today and tomorrow. And the expected mild conditions, too.

Early on this morning there's some low cloud hanging around the village, but up top, the sun is shining and we have mostly blue skies.

Some snow overnight and hopefully more during the day today.

Some more snow since my report yesterday but we are going to be having clearer skies this morning.

Snowy greetings to you from Nozawa.

It's a fine start to the weekend with some low cloud hanging over the lower parts of the mountain, but there are much clearer skies up top.

We still have snowy skies over the region, but not a huge amount of fresh to report since yesterday.

Hello from a snowy Nozawa. Just how we love it.