Forecasts say cloud... nature says No!! For now the sun is out and it's a beauty of a morning.

A mix of wet kind of stuff going on yesterday that happily ended up with some nice snow falling and this morning there's 10+cm of snow to report to you, so the mountain has a layer of fresh to enjoy and the trees are all looking white again.

Things are probably going to be pretty quiet out there on weekdays (which of course will be a bonus for the folks who are able to be here and enjoy themselves).

Some crazy snow scenes from north of us nearer the coastline in Joetsu the last few days.

There's more snow this morning along with another cold start to the day.

Holding off for now and it is actually quite bright, so unclear what way things might go today. But it doesn't look like the snow should get far away, we might get more falling today and tomorrow.

Curious weather this morning, perhaps just because it's not like I was expecting.

As much as I did not want to come here, Tokyo, I really had to. And looking at the webcams and talking with my friend, I so wish I were over in Madarao.

It's a Monday and many people will now be going back to work, so things should be quieter still from today.

Yep, more snow. Let's try to not get bored with it. ;)

Madarao is this morning reporting 5cm of fresh snowfall over 24 hours. I'm sure we were told to expect more than that on the local forecasts...

Good morning from Madarao and welcome to 2021. We start the year with more snow.

The snow did arrive and what a change in 24 hours. Night skiing was cancelled last night due to the weather.

The resort reporting just 20cm of snow but I have measured more than that since yesterday.