Real Myoko snow! More than 50cm on the ground this morning, and the snow keeps on falling,

Needle-like snow falling earlier today, but turning to more Myoko-like big flakes.

A little break in the snow today, with sun and half-blue skies. Not that much additional snow, but with the cold temperatures it fell as nice big snowflaky flakes.

Light snow with 22cm on the ground. It is still cold and still snowing, but feels like it is getting brighter.

More snow than expected overnight; it was cold and quiet late last evening, and blowing and snowy early this morning, with 40 cm in a quiet spot and lots of blowing elsewhere.

Snow and snow and some wind and a bit more snow. And cold—the news says the coldest day in the entire Heisei era (the past 30 years).

Not as much snow as the forecasts predicted, but not as strong winds, either.

Seems like everybody got snow except Myoko again; people traveling to Nagano got 20cm; even Tokyo got its heaviest snow since 2014.

The snow has started; not a whole lot of new stuff here at base, but the first bit of what we hope will be a lot more snow.

Snow again! Not the greatest kind of white stuff; we saw little pellets of soft hail, the kind of snow that, if you get a whole to of it, you don’t go forward except on steep slopes.

I was complaining about the snow falling elsewhere and not here. No more complaining. We got hit by 62cm of fairly dense powder.

Another day of a lot of places around us getting crazy heavy snow, and us getting not all that much.

Soft on freezing slush. It’s getting a little nicer on the snow surface; some people were reporting great powder on top of the icy remains of the rain, especially around Suginohara, and not too high up.

Dust on crust today. The Niigata prefecture forecast (one of the most accurate in getting snowfall right) predicted 15cm; we got 4.