Hakuba Now: Wednesday 11th March 2015
- Mar 11, 2015
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 25cm
Snowfall at base this season 545cm
Posted on Wednesday 11th March 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
It's a really great morning to everyone from Hakuba. Can you tell I'm happy?
Yes, we are having a tremendous return to winter conditions at the moment. Don't you just love fresh snow.
Resorts reporting some good numbers this morning - up to 35cm at Hakuba Goryu and Hakuba 47, up to 40cm at Hakuba Cortina... details as we have them added below. I reckon it'll be more as sometimes it's really quite unclear as to whether that's for the 24 hours or 'since the previous evening'.
Around where I am in the village since yesterday the number I'm going to add to the report is 25cm.
With snow still falling and adding to those numbers, it's a good decent layer of snow which will transform conditions. (Also adding a level of potential danger as well - don't get too excited to lose the safety first thinking).
Love it.
Limited visibility though out there, and the weather conditions might affect some higher lifts this morning - see below for any info currently available.
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Official snow depth numbers and operations at time of writing on Wednesday 11th March 2015. Subject to change during the day:
Hakuba Goryu:
Reporting 35cm of new snowfall at Alps Daira; 20cm on lower areas.
Top area affected by weather conditions at the start of the day.
- Alps Daira - 335cm
- Toomi - 170cm
- Iimori - 170cm
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Hakuba 47:
Reporting 30-35cm of new snowfall on upper areas, 15-20cm at base.
- Upper - 335cm
- Lower - 165cm
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Happo-one:
Reporting 15cm of fresh snowfall on mountain.
Upper lifts on hold due to snow removing, hopefully will open soon.
- Usagidaira - 310cm
- Nakiyama - 170cm
- Sakka - 155cm
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Hakuba Cortina:
Reporting up to 40cm of snow up top as of last night.
This morning reporting 20-40cm of fresh snowfall higher up (same or new?) and 20-30cm at base.
Ikenota Forest, Itadaira Ridge, Itadaira Forest, Giant course areas closed.
- Upper - 405cm
- Lower - 245cm
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Tsugaike Kogen:
Please note that the top Tsugaike Ropeway only opens for spring season.
Top section of Gondola closed at the beginning of the day along with other upper lifts.
Uma-no-se and Forest course area closed.
- Tsuga-no-mori - 425cm
- Maruyama - 210cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka - 200cm
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Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Reporting 5-10cm of fresh snowfall. Seems low.
- Upper - 270cm
- Lower - 155cm
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Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
No report in yet at time of posting.
- 240cm
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Kashimayari:
- 190cm
Hakuba Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Wednesday 11th March 2015 Total snowfall at base so far 545cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 54 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (14th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 276cm reported on 23 days January 2015 snowfall 126cm reported on 14 days February 2015 snowfall 105cm reported on 12 days March 2015 snowfall 38cm reported on 5 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.