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).