Just a little light snow falling today, and the sky is brightening up a bit.

A bit of sun today! A cloud front has slowly been moving in from the ocean/north, but the sun is still out in Myoko, which to be honest is a nice change.

Finally, a little break in the snowfall. Well, it is still snowing out there, and we're alternating between patches of blue skies and gray clouds that keep the white stuff coming down.

OK, I know there are those who will doubt the total for today, after the big numbers yesterday.

It is on. The snow is just pouring down, the roads are not plowed, the lifts are just starting to move: it's a snow day.

It turned pretty nice for most of the morning yesterday; in the afternoon, rain came to Joetsu, down by the coast.

Just a little bit of very nice, light snow overnight (thankfully, in a way; caught up on snow clearing. The roofs are safe!).

After one good blast of heavy snowfall early last evening the snow stopped until the very early morning.

Just a little coloring of snow overnight (by locals standards; it still was 5cm of nice light flakes).

More snow. It just kept coming down all night, with a bit of wind as well. All meaning I needed to be ready to clear snow.

The snow never completely stopped yesterday, with very very very light snow continuing to fall during the day.

The snow has just stopped, and we have a little sun now streaming through the clouds.

The snow really picked up this morning, and it's coming down beautiful, fluffy, snowflakey flakes.

The snow has returned, falling pretty steadily now, with a bit of wind from the northeast.