Yesterday wasn't one of the days to remember from this season, generally ending up wet with rain persisting into the evening. Last thing I looked it was sleet later on and this morning we do have some new snowfall to report around town. Perhaps around 5cm and the ski resorts are reporting 3-10cm of fresh snow this morning. The mountains are covered in cloud this morning with light snow continuing to fall. The forecast tells us to expect cloud for the rest of the day and so it will perhaps ease off soon.

It's a fair deal colder than yesterday, but tomorrow we will be getting warmer once again with a high of +4 on the local forecast and a good chance of more rain I'm afraid with only higher elevations due to get snow.

Snow on Wednesday and then what looks like it could be a nice good strong cold pattern coming in around Friday are the days to look out for in the coming week. Rain and warm conditions have not done the snow conditions any favours of course and so we could do with a new delivery of light and fresh snow to kick start things back.

Official resort snow depths @ Sunday 3rd February 2013, AM:
Naeba:
260cm
Kagura:
370cm
Kandatsu Kogen:
260cm
NASPA Ski Garden:
243cm
Gala Yuzawa:
330cm
Iwappara:
210cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
270cm
Yuzawa Nakazato:
190cm
Yuzawa Park:
190cm
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Maiko Snow Resort:
270cm
Ishiuchi Maruyama:
240cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
250cm