Any idea which resort?Local media are reporting that 500 people have got locked in a ski resort in Gifu Prefecture because the road between the ski resort and the village has become undrivable due to too much snow.
Any idea which resort?Local media are reporting that 500 people have got locked in a ski resort in Gifu Prefecture because the road between the ski resort and the village has become undrivable due to too much snow.
Any idea which resort?
If it was winghills, I can understand.Media were just reporting "a ski resort in Gifu Prefecture", but it seems it's Winghills. It seems the local police closed the road to the ski resort. Edit: It seems the road has got re-opened already.
A realtime webcam of Winghills, Gifu Prefecture.
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I managed to find nice untracked lines ...... face shots galore !!!!!Nozawa had plenty of snow depth but it was such dry snow that you were riding on the bumpy surface below.
Would love to see more footage from Joetsu city and the coastal road down towards Toyama. With this warmer days ahead I imagine it's a race against the clock to clear all that snow off all the roofs.
Sprinkling rain in Yokohama, and 4.4 degrees and dropping. Another 2 degrees would see a bit of snow....
Looks like it's snowing in Gotemba at 472m, about 15km from Mt Fuji.
Currently -15C at Mt Fuji, after -20 ovenight.
Sprinkling rain in Yokohama, and 4.4 degrees and dropping. Another 2 degrees would see a bit of snow....
Looks like it's snowing in Gotemba at 472m, about 15km from Mt Fuji.
Currently -15C at Mt Fuji, after -20 ovenight.
These systems from the south only rarely produce good snow on the resorts of Nagano/Niigata. Gunma sometimes does ok.Been snowing lightly up here since about 8 am, but doesn't look like it'll amount to much.
With a well-developed Pacific low we can get 30cm or more (which is a lot for one event here)... this one is weak and staying mostly to the south. Shame as it's staying good and cold.These systems from the south only rarely produce good snow on the resorts of Nagano/Niigata. Gunma sometimes does ok.
Temperature...... but this is typical, you can't easily tell what it means. But it seems to say very high temperature warning.Thanks for posting. Is it predicting very high temperatures? Or very high chance of extreme weather? What kind of extreme weather? wind?
Temperature...... but this is typical, you can't easily tell what it means. But it seems to say very high temperature warning.
The JMA translation is clunky - they mean "anomalous" rather than "extreme". Kind of bugs me.
@Ramenman - that's tenki.jp, right? I find them so-so for the upcoming few days, but the final few days of the 10-day forecast often seem completely random - sometimes swinging way outside normal temperature ranges for no apparent reason. Maybe it's more accurate for some regions but I find it a bit iffy.
Edit: I know 10 days out is impossible to forecast precisely so I don't expect it to be particularly correct, but logically wouldn't you just guess the seasonal average to hedge your bets?
Local media are reporting today is likely to be as warm as April and yes, it's warm. It might be warm enough to rain even on ski slopes and if it rains on ski slopes in Aizu region, Fukushima Pref today, it's the first time to rain in this season since the season started mid December (a month ago). One rain per a month is not that bad. Edit: Inawashiro at 550m is still minus 0.2 C, not too warm yet and it can snow on ski slopes as of 8:30 am.
The 546 Thickness line around Toyama places the freeze level at maybe 2000m on 23rd, 4pm JST, around north Nagano, western Niigata
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By early morning 546 Thickness line around Niigata city places the freeze level at maybe 2300m on 24th, 4am JST, around north Nagano, western Niigata
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I was gonna say HTFU, but you don't need to do that!!!!Raining in the village at Nozawa , but turns to snow at about 800mtrs . Wet fat flakes at 1100mtrs I came in too wet for me
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Piss off!Raining in the village at Nozawa , but turns to snow at about 800mtrs . Wet fat flakes at 1100mtrs I came in too wet for me
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A lot of precipitation has been falling on and near the Niigata coast, as rain.
However, the temperatures are starting to drop to a couple of + degrees, and it means that it should start snowing soon, at these low levels, or it may have turned already.....
It's a balmy 18-19 degrees in Tokyo & Yokohama.
But it's a bit too windy.
It appears so. Weather forecast is all over the place so not sure whether to expect rain or snow in the mountains.Looks like a big low pressure system will creep up the pacific coast sunday into monday
Gondola on wind hold all day so far at Tsugaike (Hakuba).
However, can get almost to the top with chairs..... and there’s about 40-45cm.
And here's the kicker.....Maybe 50cms here ..... all I know is that I have skied fresh tracks all day and mostly faceshots each run . It will be on again tomorrow , there is no one here![]()
Looks like there's a possibility of heavy snow coming to Nagano/Kanto this weekend. Nagano and Yamanashi could get messy according to this chart.
Earlier forecasts were verging toward more rain/less snow so guess the temperature predictions have been revised downwards.
from https://tenki.jp/forecaster/k_shiraishi/2021/01/19/11209.html
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I wonder how much of snowfall the 南岸低気圧 gives Mt.Minowa / Mt.Adatara (roughly 1700m). They are relatively close to the Pacific Ocean and one 南岸低気圧 gave the mountains mega snowfall several years ago? (IIRC). Among "good mountains", they are the nearest ones from our main home in Ibaraki Pref, so they are important for us. 南岸低気圧 often gives snowfall to Tokyo but it seems it's too warm to snow in Tokyo this time but mountains in Tohoku are cold enough (the bottom lift station of Minowa ski resort is 1000m asl).
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