Well it was just cloudy overnight so no rain and this morning the sun is out over Nozawa and it looks all set to be a nice sunny (or sort of spring-like overcast) and warm day with a high of around 12 degrees in the village. There's a bit of a wind early on but nothing to affect the resort which is open as planned this morning.

As the resort said yesterday, people have been spotted out skiing in t-shirts... I would expect we might see more of that today.

We can probably expect similar conditions right through the week and into the weekend as well.

Current Official Snow Depths Numbers:

Yamabiko:
320cm

Uenotaira:
280cm

* Readings by the resort from lower slopes now seem to have finished - though there's still plenty.

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Current Lift operations (scheduled):
Nagasaka Gondola
Yamabiko Four
Yamabiko Four No2
Skyline Link

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Main courses open (scheduled):
Yamabiko A
Yamabiko C
Yamabiko D
Yamabiko E
Skyline
Uenotaira
Paradise
Schneider
Utopia courses
Yunomine A, B
Challenge
Bunabayashi
Rinkan

The above are subject to change.