Field Observations:
What a day yesterday, blue skies and +22.5C in the valley bottom of Hakuba. It hit +9.5C at 2080m and +6C at 2456m. We didn't go skiing.
Overnight temperatures in the valley remained at +12C most of the night then dropped a little as strong winds, thunder, lightning and rain hit. Very windy in the valley this morning with snow forecast for most of the week above 1200m.
Another aberration in weather is current relative humidity, yesterday it was close to zero percent, today it is 25%. Typical is 75 to 85%.
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