It was snowing for pretty much most of the day here yesterday, but by evening there wasn't a huge amount to show for it - mostly because of the strong gusty winds that were persisting throughout the day. So for the most part there wasn't enough snow to cover that layer of ice from the previous days rain unfortunately. Better conditions were to be found higher up.

The rain wasn't fun yesterday, and it was really coming down at times. Windy too along with the warm conditions. For the first day of March, it wasn't too good!

We're into March already, can you believe that? After a warm feeling day yesterday (though a chilly feeling evening), we have another very mild morning.

Sadly not the best of news to report this morning, that's for sure. It was raining yesterday late afternoon and overnight, and it has been raining early this morning as well.

As expected, it's a mild morning here in Yuzawa. +2C at the moment and likely to rise to around +6C later on in the day. There's lots of cloud still around but we expect conditions to clear up by the afternoon. Indeed it looks like there are blue skies above Naeba already.

Yesterday the snow was falling really hard at times, and some almost white-out conditions on the roads around Yuzawa and to the north in Minamiuonuma. It calmed down somewhat by the end of the afternoon but the day delivered another 15cm or so of snow. Kagura reports up to 20cm of new.

It was all a bit crazy typical Snow Country heavy snow and congestion on the roads yesterday. With the expressway closed at times and the roads covered in snow, yesterday evening traffic conditions on the main roads around Yuzawa were really bad for a few hours there.

We're in the middle of a classic Yuzawa snow storm at the moment. The snow came down yesterday and just continued. Difficult to put a number on it but at least another 30cm to move from cars this morning. Resorts around town reporting similar numbers.

Morning from a very snowy Yuzawa. There have been some nice big flakes coming down this morning and over 15cm of new snowfall to report and up to 30cm of fresh on the slopes. Still snowing now but visibility looks pretty decent on resorts around town right at the moment.

It was snowing for pretty much all of yesterday - though at times it must be a said a rather wet kind of snow down here in town areas. Up top this morning Kagura are reporting up to 30cm of new snow since yesterday and other resorts around the town area are saying 10-15cm or so.

Light snow yesterday, but it started to really change in the evening as it started to get dark. About 5cm of snow had built up on my car in about 90 minutes yesterday evening and this morning there's probably around 30cm of new snow around town. Resorts around town are reporting some nice new numbers as well.

So light snow it was yesterday and didn't really translate into new snow in town, perhaps a slight covering on the slopes. Kagura reported up to 5cm.

Well yesterday ended up rather wet. At times the rain was coming down really heavily, always sad to see in February. Will obviously have done some damage to the snow conditions, but happily we are due a topup.

Clearer and sunny conditions is what we ended up with as well yesterday. By late morning the snow had stopped and the clouds cleared. It didn't end up a bluebird type day with a fair bit of cloud hanging around but generally bright and sunny.