Hakuba Now: Wednesday 11th December 2013
- Dec 11, 2013
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 39cm
Posted on Wednesday 11th December 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Bad weather yesterday with lifts actually stopping because of it, with Happo completely closed from lunchtime.
It's a calmer scene this morning and a thin new layer of snow down at village level to report. 1-2cm or so, with resorts reporting 5-15cm at higher elevations.
There's lots of thin cloud around but perhaps we will get to see more of the sun as the day moves on. At the moment it is about +1C.
We still wait for serious dumpage. While there has been fun to be had, we still feel very much like we're on standby for the main course to be served. Tonight into Saturday is still looking exciting in terms of potential snowfall. I'll say no more and just report what happens tomorrow morning.
Hakuba Goryu:
Reporting 1cm of fresh snow this morning.
Upper - 80cm
Iimori - -cm
Toomi - -cm
Lifts operating: Gondola, Alps Number 1, Alps Number 3.
Upper slope area open.
Hakuba 47:
Reporting 15cm of fresh snow this morning.
Upper - 100cm
Lower - 2cm
Lifts operating: Gondola, Line A, Line C, Line E.
Upper and mid slope area open.
Happo-one:
Reporting 10cm of fresh snow this morning at Usagidaira
Usagidaira - 100cm
Nakiyama - -cm
Sakka - -cm
Lifts operating: Adam Gondola, Alpen Quad, Kurobishi Number 2 quad, Hakuba Kokusai Number 3 pair, Panorama pair. The Gondola is just for getting to and from the open slopes.
Upper slopes (excluding top quad lift) area open.
Tsugaike Kogen:
Tsuganomori - 128cm
Maruyama - 10cm
Kanenonaruoka - 10cm
Lifts operating: Gondola, Hannoki pair, Tsuga Number 2 pair lift.
Other resorts planned opening dates:
Hakuba Norikura - mid December
Cortina - 14th December
Hakuba Iwatake - 20th December
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Data as of Wednesday 11th December 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 39cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 5 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 20cm (21st November) November 2013 snowfall 35cm reported on 3 days December 2013 snowfall 4cm 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 Hakuba. 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.