Furano Now: Tuesday 19th November 2024
- Nov 19, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 19, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Furano region of Hokkaido
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 9cm
Posted on Tuesday 19th November 2024 This is an archived report. The latest Furano Now report can be found here.
Welcome back to Furano Now!
The previous Furano correspondent of several years has retired. To where exactly, nobody seems to know, but I’ll go ahead and vote Bali, as that sounds nice. Anyway, I’ll be taking over the Furano reins and keep you posted on all things snow-related here. Like the famous Niseko correspondent, I too enjoy hot bread products in the winter, but my preference is strongly towards English muffins, which are difficult to obtain here, along with locally produced blackberry jam from Furano Jam Factory. I’ve lived in Furano for some years and feel like I have a good sense of the weather patterns here. We’ll see how my prediction record pans out.
On to the snow report!
Summary: Cruel teasers of snow, but nothing sticking around.
We had several snow flurries during the day yesterday, which looked great, but nothing really stuck. Things ARE white, the roads and parking lots ARE quite slick with the frozen slush, and there IS exactly 2 cm of accumulation at my official top-secret SnowJapan weather station near the Kitanomine Gondola base. Unfortunately, that will definitely be gone by approximately 11:37 AM tomorrow, with a forecasted high of 5 C. That’s +5, not the good kind.
The resort is scheduled to open on November 30, but I seriously doubt that will happen. The extended forecast has highs of +7 C near the end of the month. Positively awful. Naturally it’s colder at the top, but we’ll have to wait and see if the Prince has the guts to turn on the snow machines while it’s still so warm. While Furano is blessed with mucho, mucho snow, it doesn’t really kick in until mid-to-late December. White Christmas? Guranteed. Deep White Christmas? Not usually. Deep January? You bet.
Until the resort does open, I’ll post here only when some snow happens. Think Snow.
Furano Now 2024-2025 season |
Data as of Tuesday 19th November 2024 Total snowfall at base 9cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 2 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 7cm (8th November) November 2024 snowfall 9cm reported on 2 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Furano. The 'new snowfall' number represents the amount of snow measured since the previous report. All opinions are those of the individual reporters. Information regarding ski area operations is manually checked every morning and is believed to be correct at the time of the report.