Furano Now: Monday 7th December 2015
- Dec 7, 2015
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 14, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Furano region of Hokkaido
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 173cm
Posted on Monday 7th December 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Furano Now report can be found here.
It's white, white, white, white, white out there.
Over night, we had a dusting of about 3 centimetres at Kitanomine Village but it wasn't snowing at 8.30am when we did our photos. Now it is snowing heavily, and has been since around 9.30am in Furano Town.
The resort still lists their base as 105cm at the top of the mountain, which is open top to bottom now on the New Prince Hotel side (called Furano Zone). Kitanomine zone is at least partially groomed and we believe it opens December 18. Certainly no later than that. I think that base estimate is likely to be low, but it would be compacting and really once it's over a metre with fresh on top, it's pretty irrelevant anyway.
No wind today, just very nice and quiet. You know how snow absorbs sound and coddles you in a white buffer blanket? Well, it's like that. So peaceful.
It was -2C on my balcony at Kitanomine Village at 8.45am, but when I crossed the Sorachi River a few minutes later, it was -5 there. Brrr.
Photo 1 is the Kitanomine side of the resort this morning before the snow set in.
Photo 2 is a map of the runs and lifts currently open on the resort. About a 980m descent, and lift tickets are still half price.
Furano Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Monday 7th December 2015 Total snowfall at base 173cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 12 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 45cm (5th December) November 2015 snowfall 77cm reported on 6 days December 2015 snowfall 96cm reported on 6 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.