At the hotel, skiers played video games, volleyball, read and complained. The Japanese remain embarrassed. Not that they can control the weather. Originally there were worries there would not be enough snow. Now there has been too much.
Fog is also an omnipresent concern.
In the span of an hour on Sunday, after the men's downhill was postponed until Wednesday morning in Japan, the skies turned a clear blue with a warm sun before shifting to a dark gray with a cascade of heavy snow. Geography should still be an advantage. Morioka sits way to the northeast of Tokyo. Hakuba is in the other direction, to the northwest. When the sun is shining, the skiing at Hakuba is considered to be superior, maybe the best in Japan.