Just after the lifts closed for the evening yesterday, the heavens opened up and just dumped about 10-15cm of the finest fresh powder we've seen in two weeks.

After a week of seemed like the return of Spring, the temperature turned south of the freezing mark and snow started to fall yesterday.

The snow continued off and on throughout the day and then started dumping bucket loads of sweet, white powder all over everything for hours on end last night.

And winter continues to trudge drearily along this late into the ski season.

It is the calm after the storm today. The weather is great and the slopes are in fantastic condition for March.

The weather man has delivered and we have 15cm+ of new snow at base level.

It's shaping up to be a beautiful day out there today, with plenty of sun making its way through those clouds, bringing along with it more then enough Spring-like temperatures.

A cold front swept its way across Central Hokkaido last night and into the morning, bringing with it colder temperatures and plenty of heavy, wet snow.

We have wintery temperatures again.

After yesterday's spring like melt we are back to wintery conditions with temperatures down to what would be expected in Jan or Feb.

Last night it didn't freeze in the village and temperatures remain warm with rain falling at base level of the resort.

There is low cloud cover over the mountain at the moment and temperatures are just below freezing and will rise to above 0c around the base level.

It has been a bumper weekend for snowfall. Since yesterday's Furano Now report there has been over 40cm of fresh snow at village level.

Winter is back in full force today as a huge low pressure system sweeps its way across central Hokkaido.