After the sunny and mild temperatures of yesterday, this morning it is cloudy with low visibility. Not the best of news to report I'm afraid. What I can best describe as wet sleet is falling at the moment in town. Actually it is raining just to the north in Minamiuonuma. On the ride into Yuzawa this morning it was raining up until around Ishiuchi Maruyama and then coming over the hill into Yuzawa it started to be more snow-like. But it's wet snow as it is now at 9:30am.

Surely though higher up on the hills it is snowing and that is indeed what the resorts are reporting this morning.

The better news is that it is forecast to snow today, so hopefully it will turn into something more exciting. It's +1 degrees though at the moment and forecast to hang around there and 0 during all of today. I can't see much falling, but hope that we will be surprised.

Next decent snow due around Friday evening still.

Official snow depths @ Monday 7th February 2011 AM

Naeba:
250cm

Kagura:
380cm

Tashiro:
350cm

Gala Yuzawa:
330cm

Yuzawa Kogen:
330cm

Yuzawa Park:
190cm

Yuzawa Nakazato:
240cm

Kandatsu Kogen:
230cm

Iwappara:
205cm

NASPA Ski Garden:
230cm

Ishiuchi Maruyama:
350cm