It's a mid-winter morning with heavy snow, blowing wind, cold temps and limited to poor visibility. Not very friendly conditions out there.

Back to snow this morning.

In the middle of the night Yakebitaiyama were reporting 10cm of fresh snowfall, and as of 7am Kumanoyu are reporting another 5cm.

It is a real mid-winter morning here.

It is noticeably colder this morning and we have snow falling again.

We have had light snow falling early this morning but that seems to have eased off and there is sun breaking through clouds in places.

It's another windy morning, of the southerly kind, with snow falling though not much to report in terms of cm.

It's a windy and snowy morning here in Shiga Kogen.

After some light snow and foggy conditions early on, things seem to be starting to clear with some hints of blue sky appearing places.

Light snow falling in Shiga Kogen this morning.

It's windy out there this morning.

I'm writing this from Okushiga Kogen - and it's really snowing heavily just at the moment.

More fine and clear weather early this morning, but snow is due later on - perhaps before noon

Wasn't expecting this! Beautiful (almost) clear blue skies over Shiga Kogen.