It is another cold start to the day, much like yesterday.

Yesterday was warm, as was forecast, with the temperatures causing severe melt around town and causing monstrous puddles on the roads and plenty of slush on footpaths and carparks.

There has been no new snow overnight and today, stepping outside feels very mild.

It is a nice calm morning and overnight there has been some snow which I have measured to be 5cm.

The crowds seem to be building up in the resort with a decent wait necessary to get onto the Kitanomine lifts this morning.

Yesterday was a very good day, with the gondola getting back in operation and a good dump of 12cm of new snow.

Happy New Year 2018, which was welcomed in by a fireworks display last night at the base of the Furano Zone.

Looking at the trees it seems that the winds have passed us. There is a high cloud ceiling and it has started to snow lightly and will likely do that through the day.

There is light wind blowing around in the village which is still moving the trees a fair bit, but the most intense part of the front has passed.

The winds are still with us but should be less intense than yesterday.

Christmas day was warm and wet. Temperatures went up to +6c, and that combined with heavy rain.

Merry white Christmas from Furano. As predicted the rain arrived and it definitely is a front of heavy rain, at the moment anyway.

It is a warm morning at -2c and the town temperature should rise to a high of 0c.

It is another cold -9c morning here in the town and the temperature is set to top out at a not warm -6c.