Hakuba Now: Thursday 14th February 2013
- Feb 14, 2013
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 453cm
Weather overview Cloud
Wind Light
Temperature -
Visibility Good
Posted on Thursday 14th February 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
No new snow being reported around the valley this morning. The windy and snowy conditions of yesterday are not with us this morning and all is calm once again in Hakuba. Visibility remained generally poor yesterday on the mountains though late afternoon some areas were treated with a short period of sunshine through the clouds. Very dramatic it was up on Happo, where I was enjoying the snow.
It is an overcast cloudy start to the day here this morning but visibility is good and we can see the mountain range backdrop to the village. It's just all grey, or is that silver? Silver sounds more cool. The forecast is telling me that we might see some sun later on. Doesn't seem likely as things are now, but as we all know conditions can quickly change in these here mountains. Light snow possible overnight and then snow again Friday night, so looks like we are going to get a topup of conditions once again just before the weekend.
It's a fairly mild feeling morning and actually we are into the positive numbers at the moment - just. Still keeping in the negatives higher up with Usagidaira reporting a temperature of around -5C now.
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Official snow depths and operations @ Thursday 14th February 2013 AM:
Hakuba Goryu:
No new snow reported by Hakuba Goryu.
Official snow depths:
Alps daira - 295cm;
Toomi - 155cm;
Iimori - 130cm
Hakuba 47:
No new snowfall reported by Hakuba 47.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 260cm
Lower - 180cm
Happo-one:
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira - 280cm
Nakiyama/Shirakaba - 130cm
Sakka - 130cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 330cm
Lower slopes - 150cm
Hakuba Cortina:
No new snow reported by Hakuba Cortina since yesterday.
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 340cm
Lower slopes - 225cm
Hakuba Iwatake:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 175cm
Lower slopes - 75cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
Official snow depth:
150cm
Hakuba Minekata:
120cm
Hakuba Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Thursday 14th February 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 453cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 48 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (9th and 10th December, 25th January) November 2012 snowfall 47cm reported on 4 days December 2012 snowfall 185cm reported on 19 days January 2013 snowfall 149cm reported on 14 days February 2013 snowfall 72cm reported on 11 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.