Yesterday wasn't one of the days to remember from this season, generally ending up wet with rain persisting into the evening. Last thing I looked it was sleet later on and this morning we do have some new snowfall to report around town. Perhaps around 5cm and the ski resorts are reporting 3-10cm of fresh snow this morning.

Light rain on and off this morning around town, with grey skies above the region. At the moment it isn't raining here in central Yuzawa but just a short while I was over near Yuzawa Park and it was raining. So changeable conditions this morning though more consistent rain is likely this afternoon.

Stunner of a day here in Yuzawa again. Blue skies all round and it's calm. No wind. Amazing views all round. It's warm out there too.... 8C at the moment!

The clouds have dispersed for the most part and we are left with a sunny, bright morning here in Yuzawa. It's mostly blue skies with some very thin wispy like clouds remaining in places this morning.

It is a foggy, cloudy morning in Yuzawa with light snow falling in places. Just a dusting really around town with resorts telling of up to 5cm or so of new snowfall. It didn't dip below 0C overnight so rather mild and at the moment it is still around 0C in town.

Very sorry for the lateness of this report today. We have had a few technical issues today that has affected some of our reports. Anyway, it has generally been a snowy day here.

Not much new snow since yesterday in the end. In fact, the skies cleared up in the afternoon somewhat and it was a beautiful clear evening in Yuzawa and neighbouring Minamiuonuma valley.

Yes this feels like Yukiguni. Snow Country deserving weather conditions since yesterday and up to 50cm of fresh snow being reported from around town this morning. Strong winds at time yesterday though probably not as mad as we were expecting.

About 25cm on the car this morning, parked in the Ishiuchi area just outside the border of Yuzawa and some nice wintery conditions. I am hearing stories from people to the north of us in Uonuma and further north who are telling of more stormy conditions, but for now here in this part of the prefecture it's a slight to moderate wind, perhaps picking up over the last 30 minutes or so.

Thankfully we look like we are headed back into winter weather. Snow started falling early this morning and there's 5-10cm or so in places now on the ground. It's eased off just for the moment but due to be with us for the day.

We did see some of the sun yesterday in the end but we are going to see a lot of it today. Blue skies above Yuzawa and Minamiuonuma early this morning and it will probably stay like that for most of the day.

So it was a mix of sleet and rain yesterday in town, wet snow at times, but by evening things were holding off - when I was outside anyway.

This morning it has been raining/sleeting/snowing and right now we have wet snow falling from the skies in Yuzawa. Better than wet rain, though with it likely getting a bit warmer during the day - a high of around 4 degrees C is forecast, while at the moment it is around +2 - we may well be getting rained on later.

This morning actually started off very bright with the sun shining down. It felt like it was going to be one of those days when the remaining clouds disperse and we are left with clear beautiful skies. For the first few hours of ski resorts being open it was like that, but around mid morning think cloud quickly started to form in the sky and very soon it was rather cloudy.