Start with overnight snowfall and wind direction. Here, cold air banking into the Aizu and Bandai hills is the pattern to watch, so the useful question is how cold and calm the next window stays. With a 1000 to 1590 metre elevation band and 590 metres of vertical, the sheltered trees make modest reloads feel deeper than the raw number. A seasonal baseline around 8 metres means small clean refills matter more than waiting for a giant number. The swing variable is wind: light flow lets the trees refill, while a hard blast strips the exposed entrances. With patrol boundaries in play, focus on how the inbounds snow will hold through the first half of the day. Chase it when 5 to 15 cm lands overnight with light to moderate wind; if gusts climb, make it a sheltered-tree day.
See which resorts in Fukushima are getting the best 24 hour totals and the next two days of snow.
