Yesterday is best forgotten! It was raining pretty much for all of the day and into the night as well. Can't have done the snow out there any favours unfortunately.

We've turned around though now and this morning we have a bit of snowfall to report with the prospect of some decent snowfall over the next few days. Just a bit in town with Kagura up top reporting 10cm and up to 20cm in places where the most has fallen. Temperatures are back down below zero as well after that warm day yesterday (when it reached as high as around 6 degrees), with the current temperature in town being -3 degrees. We basically have snow forecast for today, tomorrow and Friday and so hopefully we can start building up a nice new fresh deep layer.

These sudden changes in temperature of course are not good for the stability of snow layers and so extra care and awareness needs to be taken if you are going out of the official runs and in backcountry.

Official resort snow depths @ 8th February 12, AM:
Mt Naeba:
300cm
Kagura:
350cm
Kagura - Tashiro:
320cm
GALA Yuzawa:
350cm
Kandatsu Kogen:
310cm
NASPA Ski Garden:
297cm
Iwappara:
260cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
350cm
Yuzawa Park:
230cm
Yuzawa Nakazato:
270cm
Ludens Yuzawa:
280cm
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Ishiuchi Maruyama:
310cm
Centleisure Maiko:
390cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
290cm