The snow eased up by the afternoon on Monday and in the end didn't amount to anything really in the village areas but the tops of the mountains had a fair dose of snow... reports of 40cm or so on Hakuba 47.

Yesterday the sun was out and while there was a fair bit of cloud around, it was a fine day and interesting to watch the snow line move slowly back up the mountainsides as the sun did shone and melted the thin layers away during the day.

It was a beautiful start to the day here today with blue skies and the sun out giving us a high temperature of around 11 degrees. It has gradually clouded over during the day though and as we head into tomorrow and tomorrow evening it should gradually be getting colder with snow - possibly as rain in the village? - due later on tomorrow along with colder conditions over the next few days. Would be good if we could get more added to that base on the mountains in the run up to resorts opening.

After that though it looks likely to clear up and get milder once again until at least the beginning of next week.