The consistent cold temperatures are delivering that famous Furano light dry powder and you can hear the squeaky sound of your shoes on the dry snow as you walk along the streets.

The weather was true to its word with falls right through to around 10pm last night. The powder was really light and dry so we had a great day on the slopes.

It is snowing heavily this morning and there is 7cm accumulation in the village.

With continuing snowfall, Furano Now is starting to wonder if it will ever stop snowing.

There has been at least 20cm of new snow fall in the village since yesterday and it is still forecast to snow through until Saturday morning.

Happy New Year from Furano Now, and what better way to start 2014 than get out on the mountain and carve some turns on the immaculately groomed slopes.

Yesterday was an absolute stunning day with 40-50cm of fresh snow on the mountain which the groomers couldn't get to before the skiers.

Yesterdays flurries ended up as great falls and that continued over night. There will be many smiley faces today with an extra 10cm added to the base.

Moderate falls over night were a bit wet but we have some nice flurry this morning being whipped around.

Furano Ski Area reports that the Kitanomine Gondola will start operating today.

The slopes have been replenished by new snowfall overnight which is a bit on the wet side but is ideal for covering up some of the thin patches that were starting to occur on the lower slopes.

It is nice and sunny today with some cloud mixed in as well.

Furano was hit by a serious snow storm last night that dumped another 40cm at village level.

It is snowing at the moment and there has been another 5cm accumulation since the last report.