Yesterday did become a rather warm day in the region, lovely spring conditions.

It's one of those mornings where there's a big difference in the temperatures up top and down in the village.

This morning it's another cold and wintery-like start to the day and there's more snow to report....

You read correctly. 15cm of fresh snow up on the Yamabiko and Uenotaira slopes according to the resort, and we have even got a new coating of snow down at base and in the village as well.

It has been good to see some snow sprinkling down the mountainside once again and the resort reported an impressive 15cm of new snowfall on the top Yamabiko runs this morning.

Lunchtime report on this rather warm day in Nozawa. So warm in fact that the resort has reporting a temperature of +17 degrees at the Hikage area, 12 degrees at Uenotaira and 10 degrees at Yamabiko.

Here we are in April already. Where did the season go?!