Hakuba Now: Tuesday 12th February 2019
- Feb 12, 2019
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 4cm
Snowfall at base this season 343cm
Posted on Tuesday 12th February 2019 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning everyone.
The long weekend is over and today we are back to something like normal. Though of course it is still peak season.
Fresh snowfall headlines as I can find them:
Hakuba Cortina: 10cm (base); 15cm (top)
Hakuba Norikura: 10cm
Hakuba 47: 0cm (but saying that blowing winds stole the measuring point of 5-10cm of fallen snow!)
Hakuba Happo-one: 10cm (top of Riesen)
Some snow falling later in the afternoon yesterday though nothing major and this morning we seem to have around 10cm of fresh on the mountain. Earlier snow has eased away and right now there's actually an increasing amount of blue sky over the village, though still a lot of cloud around the mountains and snow falling along with very limited visibility in places. So a real mix of weather conditions over the region this morning, as you sometimes get of course.
Hopefully we'll be getting some more snowfall tonight.
I know the numbers are far from the whole story and as always I encourage people to not dwell on them. Just to dwell on them for a moment though (doh); I just wish that I could have more days when I was able to report some really big silly mad snow numbers to you. They're always fun and exciting. We're just not seeing many of those days this time... BUT, I have had some excellent days out there and I plan to have many more. And I hope that you can too!
Hakuba Now 2018-2019 season |
Data as of Tuesday 12th February 2019 Total snowfall at base so far 343cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 38 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 33cm (29th January) November 2018 snowfall 0cm December 2018 snowfall 112cm reported on 12 days January 2019 snowfall 207cm reported on 19 days February 2019 snowfall 24cm reported on 7 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.