Sunday night saw huge amounts of precipitation, falling as rain in Hirafu and Kutchan with some pretty spectacular thunderstorms. This morning saw the ski runs covered with a thin blanket of snow almost down to the bottom lift and starting at 8.30am we saw our first flakes at village level with the snow shower lasting until around 10am.

Both Tuesday night and Thursday afternoon look like good candidates for more sustained snow falls with the conditions remaining well below freezing with the eventual warming mentioned in my last report set to occur over the weekend.