flake count update February 5 2012, 4:18pm via aacniseko.blogspot.com

Update
It was probably the snowiest December in Niseko since the first lifts started turning fifty years ago, with over five metres snowfall recorded.   The biggest daily snowfall was a sixty centimetre deluge reported on 6 January and the cumulative snowfall has already exceeded nine metres.  The current snowdepth at the top of Hirafu is slightly under four metres.