Just a thin layer of new snow overnight in Madarao and just a cloudy start to the day. A special day of course, it being New Years Eve.

Beautiful weather this morning in Madarao.

10-15cm, though windy conditions mean that it's variable depending on where you look. One thing for sure is that it's a very cold morning here and the thermometer outside is saying -6C.

After yesterday the skies quite quickly clouding over, we got some rain last night I'm afraid.

For now though I can tell you that as yesterday ended up, it's sunny here in Madarao.

Good morning from a sunny Madarao. And what's more we got 15cm or so of fresh snow overnight as well. Santa did his job, thanks mate!

30cm of fresh snowfall up here in Madarao. :) Lots of snow to move around for locals, but more importantly lots of snow to play in for the people here for this opening long weekend.

First day of the season proper at Madarao Kogen.

OK so after the two day pre-open weekend last week, the snow season starts properly in Madarao Kogen from tomorrow, 21st December.

Madarao Kogen open today for the 13/14 season - well for the weekend anyway with the main full opening planned for next week.

The slopes are this morning covered in snow as we got some decent snowfall yesterday.