Just a sprinkling of snow this morning in the village, with resorts around Hakuba and Otari reporting up to 10cm on the upper slopes.

A better picture than yesterday for sure. It did end up raining and we got wet unfortunately. Quickly onto today and we have that slight dusting of new snow along with a colder start to the day. There'll be some hard and icy conditions out there this morning I would think.

It's a mostly cloud morning with all but the lower parts of the mountains covered in cloud so generally poor visibility higher up on the upper slopes. Just cloudy though with nothing falling from them and as I said a colder temperature of around -3C in as of 9am. -8 degrees up at Usagidaira on Happo-one but only a slight wind at the moment.

Snowfall is likely tonight and into tomorrow morning and we're likely to have snow showers on and off over the next few days. Later in the weekend some decent snowfall is on the forecast so a good idea to keep an eye on that.

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Official snow depths and operations @ Tuesday 5th February 2013:

Hakuba Goryu:
0cm of snow reported on lower slopes, 5cm up top from Hakuba Goryu this morning.
Official snow depths:
Alps daira - 280cm;
Toomi - 140cm;
Iimori - 115cm

Hakuba 47:
3cm of new snowfall reported by Hakuba 47 this morning.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 220cm
Lower - 170cm

Happo-one:
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira - 240cm
Nakiyama/Shirakaba - 80cm
Sakka - 90cm

Tsugaike Kogen:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 280cm
Lower slopes - 140cm

Hakuba Cortina:
5-10cm of new snow reported by Hakuba Cortina this morning.
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 300cm
Lower slopes - 170cm

Hakuba Iwatake:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 160cm
Lower slopes - 75cm

Hakuba Sanosaka:
Official snow depth:
135cm

Hakuba Minekata:
90cm