It's the last day of the year and the day has started with lovely blue skies and sunshine over the region.

Good morning from Yuzawa where snow was falling for most of yesterday.

The sun was out yesterday morning over the region. Lovely. And the snow quality was pretty good too actually.

Yesterday was the first really proper winter-like day of the season. Good snowfall, cold temperatures, something of a wind. It felt good shovelling the snow!

Yesterday at one point there were almost clear blue skies over the region - somehow it had turned into a beautiful day. Better than rain for sure.

It's good to see some white again. Not a huge amount - just under 5cm outside here - but there will be more on the mountains. Kagura resort are reporting 10-15cm of fresh.

Happy Christmas! ...and hopefully it will be by the end of the day.

Good morning, and things remain generally a bit wet this morning with temperatures somewhere about the same as well... dropping to about 5C overnight

It's a mostly cloudy morning here, and dry too. Overnight temperatures dropped to just under zero but today it highs of around 9C expected.

Kagura this morning are reporting 10-20cm of fresh snow on their upper areas which is great to hear.

Yesterday turned into a beauty of a day.

Good morning from Yuzawa where early on there's quite a lot of cloud around, though the forecast for the day is still clearer skies and sun. Looks like it's already sunny up in the Naeba area so I expect things to clear up this morning.

Good morning from Yuzawa where we have had some more snow overnight. Not a huge amount, but we'll very happily take it!

At last, we have snow in town!