After that weekend-to-forget weather wise, I have much more encouraging news this morning from Yuzawa - in the form of some fresh snow! Yes, so much better than the wet conditions we had over the weekend and 5-15cm of new snow is not on the slopes around town. Kagura reporting the most with 10-15cm since last night. I think some people who were in Yuzawa over the weekend might not be too pleased to hear about that!

It is just cloudy now as I write this report at 11:30am but is snowing in places higher up on the mountains. It is keeping quite cold with a high or just around +1 today. Quite bright too at the moment, but a bit of a strong wind is forecast from this afternoon. Looks like it is going to be a cold night with temperatures down to around -5 degrees followed by clear and sunny weather tomorrow and a high of around +5.

So while it's not deep conditions, it is certainly an improvement this morning.

Official resort snow depths @ Monday 19th March 12, AM:
Mt Naeba:
280cm
Kagura:
380cm
Kagura - Tashiro:
350cm
GALA Yuzawa:
360cm
Kandatsu Kogen:
310cm
NASPA Ski Garden:
280cm
Iwappara:
210cm
Yuzawa Kogen:
310cm
Yuzawa Park:
200cm
Yuzawa Nakazato:
200cm
Ludens Yuzawa:
180cm
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Ishiuchi Maruyama:
290cm
Centleisure Maiko:
365cm
Joetsu Kokusai:
220cm