Snow has hit Nozawa!

And so it begins….

The first storms starting hitting last week and now the top of the mountain is covered in a 20cm blanket of the white gold!  More snow forecast for the next few days and the Japan Met office is forecasting low temps and more than average snowfall for the next month:

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/longfcst/000_1_00.html