A generally fine day yesterday with lots of cloud around but a few spells of sunshine and blue sky too added into the mix.

Get to enjoy yesterday? I got to spend a few hours at Kagura where the snow was really great.

It was snow and mid-winter conditions through the day yesterday once again and light snow was falling when I got up earlier on this morning.

The snow hasn't stopped yet!

Snow, snow and more snow.

It took a while to get going yesterday but come mid-afternoon the snow was really coming down hard... real Snow Country-style heavy snow.

Lots of nature news yesterday with the eruption (see below for more on that - Yuzawa is totally unaffected) and the Kanto region still coping with the snowfall that they got.

Another 11cm of fresh snowfall to add to the report this morning. Kagura are reporting 10cm and Maiko are reporting 15cm.

After a lovely morning again yesterday, things started to cloud over in the afternoon and then some rain that turned into snow.

Yesterday ended up being another generally mild day with the sun finding a way through the clouds and a few spots of rain in the evening.

The clouds generally remained over Yuzawa for most of the day yesterday.

After a beautiful morning with clear blue skies, clouds gradually moved in later on in the day and it was snowing by evening.

As I mentioned yesterday the snow clouds appear to be moving across Niigata Prefecture to the north of us - and giving our region something of a miss in the process.

There's no new snow on the ground this morning, though it did continue snowing past my report yesterday morning so that is where the 1cm is coming from in the report today.