It was a long lead into winter with unusually warm temperatures pushing into December, but despite this Furano Ski Area was able to open up around the same time as usual on 24 November, and close as planned earlier this week on 6 May, at the end of Golden Week.

It is a grey drab day with overcast conditions above and light raining falling.

Furano has had a wintery blast from last weekend and there was a surprise snow fall of 5cm on Sunday and 2cm yesterday in the village.

Furano has been hit with a snow front that has deposited 6cm of nice fresh spring snow on the ground.

It is a perfect spring day with full sunshine bathing the resort. The sun is forecast to stay throughout the day, as are the blue skies.

The snow did arrive late yesterday afternoon and came down quite heavily for a few hours, accumulating on cars and the ground.

It is snowing moderately and there is 5cm of fresh snow on the ground.

There is a nice blanket of fresh snow across the village this morning.

It is a very nice Sunday morning here in Furano. At -6c it is a cool start to the day, but the sun is already shining down on the town strongly.

Today is back to winter with cooler temperatures and a reasonable amount of fresh snowfall.

There is a light dusting of snow across the village, and although only 1cm at base level, I would expect around 5cm at the top of the resort.

It is a little colder this morning at -6c and later in the day the high will peak at -3c.

There has been a dusting of 1cm of new snow in the ski village overnight. The day is calm with no wind at base level.

There is a light dusting of snow on the ground and it is snowing very lightly with fine snow flakes.