Good morning from Yuzawa. It's a kind of overcast morning here. The weather has been changeable since my last report - yesterday was beautiful, and the autumn colours are still looking good in town areas now though they'll surely be finishing up soon as winter approaches. The snow that we saw on the top of the resorts around town has now melted, which is no surprise. Today it is warming up to around 18 degrees in town.

Kagura is hoping to be able to open on 19th November - this coming Saturday - but there's not enough snow up there right now for that to be possible. The forecast isn't showing much in terms of snowfall up there...

I will post another report in a few days time.

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We were able to put our new SnowJapan.com site content online over the weekend, please do take a look around at what is new. We hope you like it.

This report (and all of the other Now reports) of course looks different than before, and there is a lot more data to take in.

Be sure to check the Snowfall Analysis page (tab near the top of the page). On that page you will find some very interesting tables and charts showing snowfall over the past few seasons... and that will be updated daily as we get into the coming season.