It's Sunday and it is looking great outside.

Welcome to Saturday, and it looks like a good day out there.

The morning lows were below zero, but mild, and have already risen into positive territory.

The heavy snow that was on the forecast has arrived and the village area has received a whopping 17cm overnight.

It was snowing heavily for the first half of the morning but has eased off and now there is just light snow coming down.

Good news this morning. It is snowing at a moderate rate and there has been 4cm accumulation overnight.

Unfortunately the weather guy was pretty accurate with the forecast yesterday with the resort and town being hit by moderate rainfall, strong winds and warm temperatures.

It will be a great morning on the mountain.

Yesterday had some great powder with plenty of opportunity to enjoy the fresh snow even on the main runs.

Yesterday was a day that defined variable. It was foggy on mountain with moderate winds and limited visibility in the morning.

Late yesterday afternoon the sky started dumping snow and it just kept coming down heavily for a few hours.

Good morning from Furano where there's just a dusting of new snow since the last report - 1cm measured.

It is all good news to report from Furano this morning. There has been a significant dump of snow with total measured accumulation of 17cm in the village.

Windy but plenty on nice snow sums up the report today.