The weather has snapped back from a warmish spell that brought with it a fair amount of rain and cleaned up most of the snow lying around the village.

We are currently experiencing a blip in the wintery weather here in Furano.

We have more snow to report in this update with a further 4cm accumulating on the ground overnight.

Yesterday the village was pelted by a significant amount of rain, and temperatures rose up to +6c.

Over the last few days Furano has been blessed with significant early season snowfalls.

Although we have had a taste of wintery weather on and off up until now it seems this time the real winter weather has arrived.

Well, it is that time of year where we are in the run up stage to the 2016-17 ski season.

Starting the last weekend with all the ski areas open; spring has really hit, and we're just watching the snow slowly retreat.