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Easter weekend kicks off in Niseko with a nice reduction in winds and a bonus sprinkle of overnight snow. Official figures state 5cm at base and peak but eyeballing it looks about double that in places. King 4…
April 6 2012, 10:46am | Comments »
Another 5-10cm of snow since last report. Today will see Kutchan surpass 10m of total snowfall for the season. This is still around 1m less than total snowfall for last season but not a bad total for a…
March 27 2011, 1:06pm | Comments »
The weather today has been a bit of a carbon copy of yesterday except with a bit less snow overnight. Quite a bit of sun early on but this afternoon has seen snow showers moving through. This should…
March 26 2011, 2:46pm | Comments »
More snow overnight adding up to another 10cm. Conditions first thing this morning were awesome off the peak with up to knee powder under a bluebird sky. As the day progressed lower slopes became affected by the sun…
March 24 2011, 2:36pm | Comments »
Around 4pm yesterday the beautiful sunny day turned quickly into a cold, snowy and windy day with a heavy band of precipitation moving through. The haeavy snow moved through pretty quickly though and since then there has only…
March 17 2011, 12:00pm | Comments »
Snow continued into the afternoon yesterday then mostly cleared in the evening. Overnight there were a couple more periods of light snow adding up around 10cm since last report. This morning though has dawned completely clear so another…
February 28 2011, 9:38am | Comments »
Snow fell on and off through much of yesterday with occasional breaks in the cloud. Overnight it mostly cleared but it started up again early this morning. All up around 5-10cm since last report. The winds eased and…
February 27 2011, 9:53am | Comments »
Good news is it's snowing out there, bad news is that there hasn't been all that much yet and it's getting pretty windy up there. The avi report is saying around 10cm overnight but in Hirafu I'd put…
February 7 2011, 9:12am | Comments »
Snow continued through much of yesterday but it mostly fined up through the evening and overnight. All the fresh snow over the last 4 days is starting to settle and avalanche danger is decreasing. This means most gates…
February 2 2011, 9:00am | Comments »
Yesterday again had a couple of brief periods where the sun shone through interspersed with periods of heavy snow showers. Overnight it mostly cleared up and temperatures dropped to below -13 in Kutchan. This morning there is a…
January 12 2011, 8:54am | Comments »
Yesterday saw snow continue for much of the day adding another 5-10cm since last report. Overnight it mostly cleared up and today has fined up to a bluebird day after a few early morning flurries. Definitely a day…
December 30 2010, 12:23pm | Comments »
Yesterday warmed up considerably again getting up near 8 degrees in the early afternoon and we had a little rain ahead of the cooler air. The temp though did drop rapidly and in the end there was very…
December 7 2010, 9:03am | Comments »