It is snowing in Zao this morning. Mild, but snowing. Poor visibility out on the mountain and some quite strong winds blowing at times.

The snow keeps on falling over Zao. 15cm yesterday and another 15cm today.

Yesterday was a beautiful day. Deep blue skies above the resort and everything was looking fantastic.

It is another really very cold morning here as winter almost seems to be tightening the grip on proceedings - we won't complain!

Brrrrrr, very cold this morning. Mid winter cold.

It is mild this morning in Zao, but some snow is falling.

5cm of fresh snow this morning. It's cloudy now, with some breaks in those clouds

Morning from Zao as the cold and wintery conditions continued. It might be fun for all the powder hunters on the slopes, but the resort is having to play catch up a bit.

Getting back to something like normal here in Zao. The Ropeways are back up and running though it looks like the Kurohime quads and Paradise lifts amongst a few others are still not moving.

Strong winds continue in Zao this morning and it's a fluid situation but there are a few limited lifts operating as of 10am including a few base pairs and the Chuo pairs.

It has been something of a crazy day here in Zao.

Those official numbers don't seem to have budged, but there has been a lot of new snow over the last two days.

We ended up with some very stormy weather yesterday evening - enough to cancel the light up top ropeway operations.

It might be snowing more in Tokyo than Zao this morning. Which seems odd, but hopefully very soon change!