It's a pretty gray day out there today; not a problem if there's a good snowfall along with the clouds and fog, but we've just got a light dusting of pretty wet snow and a cold wind coming out of the north.

I feel like I could pull out some of my earlier reports for March and just use them again: it was snowing yesterday, it's perfectly blue and sunny today.

The next weather cycle has in fact arrived, with blowing snow and temperatures back in the minus again.

It's sunny and warm again for the Newspaper Day holiday (remember your local delivery person... or subscribe and save print media). If it's not going to snow, it might as well be nice.

The weather report predicted rain, but luckily that seems to have stayed in the northern part of Niigata Prefecture.

The wind is way up, the rain is occasionally sprinkling down, but no heavy rains just yet on a Monday in Myoko.

Sunday is starting out better than we originally expected; after two warm, sunny days, it suddenly got cold late yesterday afternoon, with a bit of light snow in the early evening.

Not all the official reports are in, but I'm off to hike in the woods--and it's a perfect day for it!

I kind of feel like I'm repeating myself, as these cycles of warm, sunny, rainy, colder, snowing keep going on....

It's warm (and it was warm yesterday, too), and we're just waiting now for the rain to start falling. With the local weather reports giving an 80-90 percent chance, I think it's likely that things are going to be wet soon.

All the local reports aren't in yet, but I'm off to enjoy this perfectly bluebird day (yes, I've said I prefer a day of heavy snow - but it is March! What are you going to do?).

Winter has really come back with a roar -- snow, cold and high wind. Another of those days when it's hard to tell how much actually fell overnight, with lots of drifting around the house.

A little late logging in today, but I'm glad I did; things started warm, with even a little sun, before rain started falling, the wind shifted to the north, things got cold, and now we've got light snow falling.

It's warm but sunny again this morning - the predicted rain fell during the night (yea!) but might again late in the day (boo!). Can't complain, really.