Yesterday morning the rain eased and visibility improved for a bit, but in the afternoon in many places the old 'gas' returned leaving us with generally poor visibility out on the slopes. I was up at Happo-one in the afternoon and there were some impressive sights at times.

This morning, it was cold early and it's much clearer. Well... it is now. Here in the village we started off with a lot of cloud cover, and it turns out it was once again a low-lying sea of clouds and folk getting up high on the first lifts will have enjoyed seeing that. It quickly dispersed and now the sun is out and there's some fine blue skies. Bit of very thin high cloud here and there.

It's around 6 degrees as of 9am and the local forecast tells us to expect it to warm up to about 14 degrees later in the afternoon.

We're expecting colder conditions tomorrow and 'precipitation'. It'll be rain in the village and at least on lower areas...

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Official snow depth numbers and operations at time of writing on Sunday 12th April 2015. Subject to change during the day:

Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu plans to be at least part open until Wednesday 6th May.
Hakuba Goryu Telecabin Gondola, Alps Number 1 and 3 pair lifts operating.
Can still ski down to base using Toomi area.
The lower Iimori area is now closed.

- Alps Daira - 230cm
- Toomi - 65cm

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Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 plans to be at least part open until Wednesday 6th May.
Currently all open (top to bottom) apart from a small lower part of R7.
Tree Riding Zone now closed for the season.

- Upper - 200cm
- Lower - 65cm

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Happo-one:
Happo-one plans to be at least part open until Sunday 10th May.
Top areas of the resort remain open.
Can still ski down to base via Riesen and part of Nakiyama with the Nakiyama 3 lift and Gondola still operating.
Other lower areas of Happo-one are now closed.

- Usagidaira - 185cm

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Tsugaike Kogen:
Tsugaike Kogen plans to be at least part open until Wednesday 6th May.
The Gondola as well as the top Tsuga Number 2 pair lift and Han-no-ki high speed pair lifts and Ropeway remain open.
Top areas and part of Maruyama and Oya-no-hara courses remain open.

- Tsuga-no-mori - 290cm

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Other resorts in the area are now closed for the season.