Hakuba Now: Sunday 15th December 2013
- Dec 15, 2013
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 20cm
Snowfall at base this season 92cm
Posted on Sunday 15th December 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
How much snow do we want? Always more, of course, but for now here's the headlines that we have this morning for snowfall on upper slopes:
Happo-one - 60cm
Hakuba 47 - 40cm
Hakuba Goryu - 40cm
Tsugaike Kogen - added more than 40cm since yesterday
Hakuba Cortina - 30cm
Bottom line... lots and lots of snow falling on mountain.
There's some wind today though which may affect some lifts - the Gondola and a few lifts at Happo were affected just before but are now operating. Visibility is fairly poor out on the mountain this morning with all this snow falling, though not quite as mad as yesterday. The snow may well continue for today and into tomorrow before easing off.
We might even get to see some sun on Tuesday. Looking good for more snow later in the week again though.
It all came at once, but we couldn't really ask for more at the moment.
Hakuba Goryu:
Reporting 40cm of fresh snow this morning on upper slopes and 30cm at Toomi.
Upper - 230cm
Toomi - 110cm
Hakuba 47:
Reporting 20cm at base and 40cm of fresh snow on upper slopes this morning.
Upper - 220cm
Lower - 50cm
Happo-one:
Reporting another whopping 60cm on upper slopes this morning!
Usagidaira - 190cm
Nakiyama - -cm
Sakka - -cm
More slopes now open including Riesen
Tsugaike Kogen:
Tsuganomori - 240cm
Maruyama - 60cm
Kanenonaruoka - 70cm
Lifts operating: Gondola, Hannoki pair, Tsuga Number 2 pair, Shirakaba quad, Tsugaike Chuo triple, Kanononaruoka Skyliner II
Hakuba Cortina:
Reporting 20-30cm of new snowfall
Upper - 170cm
Lower - 110cm
Lifts operating: Number 2 quad, Number 4 pair
Hakuba Norikura:
100cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
50cm - opening today
Other resorts planned opening dates:
Hakuba Iwatake - 20th December
Hakuba Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Sunday 15th December 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 92cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 9 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 20cm (21st November and 15th December) November 2013 snowfall 35cm reported on 3 days December 2013 snowfall 57cm reported on 6 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.