Hakuba Now: Thursday 12th December 2013
- Dec 12, 2013
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 15cm
Snowfall at base this season 54cm
Posted on Thursday 12th December 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
I'll start off with the headlines:
Snow haul from around the valley this morning...
By the road in village - 10-20cm
Hakuba 47 - 35cm
Hakuba Goryu - 30cm
Happo-one - 50cm!
Tsugaike now have 172cm as the official number for up top (with a curious just 10cm down at base).
Sounds good to me! These numbers are what the resorts are reporting this morning, with Happo's 50cm sounding particularly impressive.
It's probably panic stations right at this moment around the valley as resorts deal with the snow and decide what to do, but I would very much expect more areas to very quickly open up now... though I can't confirm any changes just at the moment.
Poor visibility out there, but deep conditions to be found for those craving them.
Snow is expected to continue through into the weekend and so it should be piling up very nicely.
Hakuba Goryu:
Reporting 30cm of fresh snow this morning on upper slopes.
Upper - 100cm
Iimori - -cm
Toomi - -cm
Lifts operating: Gondola, Alps Number 1, Alps Number 3.
Upper slope area open.
Hakuba 47:
Reporting 15cm at base and 35cm of fresh snow on upper slopes this morning.
Upper - 135cm
Lower - 30cm
Lifts operating: Gondola, Line A, Line C, Line E.
Upper and mid slope area open.
Happo-one:
Usagidaira - 150cm
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 - 172cm
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 Thursday 12th December 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 54cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 6 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 20cm (21st November) November 2013 snowfall 35cm reported on 3 days December 2013 snowfall 19cm reported on 3 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.