Hopefully we'll get to enjoy some sunshine over the weekend.

It has been warm. A warm day yesterday, up to 18.4C in the village in the early afternoon.

The ski area is reporting light rain up on the open areas as of just before 8am, but hopefully that won't last long.

There has been some snow up on the top area of the mountain. The ski area itself if reporting 5cm at Yamabiko.

It's a bit of a damp/wet morning but from the webcam it looks like the top Yamabiko area is above cloud. A good reason to get up there!