After a beautiful morning with clear blue skies, clouds gradually moved in later on in the day and it was snowing by evening.

As I mentioned yesterday the snow clouds appear to be moving across Niigata Prefecture to the north of us - and giving our region something of a miss in the process.

There's no new snow on the ground this morning, though it did continue snowing past my report yesterday morning so that is where the 1cm is coming from in the report today.

Good morning from Yuzawa and I have good news.

Snowfall for most of the day yesterday, apart from a period of clearer skies and a bit of sunshine.

Lots more snow again to report this morning.

We have a lot of fresh snowfall to report to you this morning.

Yesterday it was snowing on and off during the day - clearer skies in places at times.

And here we are on New Years Eve already.

More snow to report as we approach the end of 2017.

More snow to report since yesterday. Kagura are reporting 15-20cm of fresh snowfall while Maiko Snow Resort are reporting 15cm.

We are still enjoying a full-on traditional Yuzawa snow storm, I am happy to report.

Heavy snow (and wind) overnight and as of 8:30am I am measuring 54cm of fresh snowfall. That's Yuzawa-style snowfall!

After that rain in the first part of the day yesterday, happily it turned into snow later on and this morning we have just under 10cm of fresh on the ground.