Hakuba Now: Saturday 14th March 2015
- Mar 14, 2015
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 15cm
Snowfall at base this season 610cm
Posted on Saturday 14th March 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
The good news from Hakuba continues today with another 15cm of snow on the ground here and more on the mountain. Hakuba 47 report up to 40cm, Cortina up to 35cm. Nice.
The storm has been calming down now though. This morning it looks clearer and sunny higher up, overcast skies from below. But fine weather is forecast for the day today and the sun should warm things up a bit.
There's going to be lots of sun in the coming days if the forecast has got it all right, and a proper old warming up as well. The last few days have felt like mid winter, but come a few days and we'll probably feeling very much spring once again.
Can't do anything about that. For now, it should be a great start to the weekend and I hope some of you can get to enjoy it.
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Like I said yesterday, March can be a funny old month. Similar to early season, it can be a risk if you are booking a holiday, albeit a different kind of risk than early season I suppose (absolutely no snow is much worse than spring conditions!)
As the last few years have shown though, we can have very dry periods mid season as well.
But congratulations to anyone who chose to be in Hakuba at this moment in time though - you have timed it very well!
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Hakuba Goryu:
Reporting 20cm of new snowfall across the mountain.
May be late start to upper lifts.
- Alps Daira - 365cm
- Toomi - 185cm
- Iimori - 185cm
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Hakuba 47:
Reporting 35-40cm of new snowfall since yesterday morning.
- Upper - 390cm
- Lower - 205cm
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Happo-one:
Reporting over 20cm of fresh snowfall on mountain.
- Usagidaira - 380cm
- Nakiyama - 240cm
- Sakka - 230cm
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Hakuba Cortina:
This morning reporting 30cm of fresh snowfall.
All open! Go!
- Upper - 510cm
- Lower - 360cm
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Tsugaike Kogen:
Please note that the top Tsugaike Ropeway only opens for spring season.
Some lifts due for late start as they cope with the snow. Hopefully start soon.
- Tsuga-no-mori - 480cm
- Maruyama - 230cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka - 210cm
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Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Reporting 15-20cm of fresh snowfall.
- Upper - 305cm
- Lower - 190cm
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Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
No update yet for today.
- 285cm
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Kashimayari:
- 195cm
Hakuba Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Saturday 14th March 2015 Total snowfall at base so far 610cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 57 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 103cm reported on 8 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.