Weather Niseko

The J2ski report says "snow showers up high" and "showers below".
I've asked before and been told that the "showers below" means rain.
We've been to niseko a few times and I find it hard to believe that it'd be rain at this time of the year, especially given the minus temperatures.
Thoughts…

Hi Sandra, thanks for the observation. We have looked into this and did find an issue with the way our system processed a particular combination of weather conditions at low altitudes; which meant erroneous forecasts of rain at times for places like Niseko.
We have now fixed that and you should see less rain now!