It's snowing!

And some of the resort areas reporting 20cm of fresh as well.

And oddly there's a bit of sunshine coming through my window at the moment. Hold on, no, it's gone. Back to grey cloud cover and the snow falling...

Yes, it is a good morning.

I mentioned a brief glimpse of the sun - the forecast does actually tell us to expect some of that later on today and so perhaps it's the first signs of clearing conditions.

A friend mentioned to me last night, we have just half a month left of 'the full mountain' (ie. all of the resort areas) being open - come April some areas will be closed, though of course some resort areas plan to open right through into May.

Most of the resorts don't seem to have adjusted their official snow depth numbers, but that's par for the course!

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Official snow depths at Shiga Kogen resort areas (Tuesday 15th March 2016):

Sun Valley
60cm
Nighta on Saturdays until 19th March (7pm-9pm)

Maruike
60cm

Hasuike
50cm

Giant
90cm

Higashitateyama
90cm

Bunadaira
90cm

Takamagahara Mammoth
120cm

Nishitateyama
100cm

Tannenomori Okojo
120cm

Ichinose Family
120cm
Nighta daily until 27th March (6:30pm-9pm)

Terakoya
100cm

Ichinose Diamond
120cm
Nighta on Saturdays until 26th March (6:30pm-9pm)

Ichinose Yamanokami
120cm

Yakebitaiyama
120cm

Okushiga Kogen
85cm

Kumanoyu
120cm
Nighta on 20th March

Yokoteyama & Shibutoge
120cm

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6 day snow and weather forecasts:

Ichinose Family 6-day snow and weather forecast
Okushiga Kogen 6-day snow and weather forecast
Yokoteyama 6-day snow and weather forecast