Hakuba Now: Monday 18th January 2016
- Jan 18, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 16cm
Snowfall at base this season 117cm
Posted on Monday 18th January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Resorts reporting 20-30cm on the mountain and a good layer down in the village as well.
Also, strong winds are affecting Happo-one, Tsugaike and Cortina resorts this morning. It looks like Hakuba 47 and Goryu are open at the time of writing but it's best to keep an eye on that. Or perhaps have a day in the onsen and watch the snow fall while hatching cunning plans on how to enjoy it...
It's great news about the snow, not so about the wind, but this is probably just what we need... hopefully the snowfall will continue falling like the forecast says it will do for the coming week.
This may well be turning point in the season. Expect lots of things to change over the next few days once the wind allows.
Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 is reporting 30cm of fresh snowfall.
All courses are now officially open.
Tree Riding Zone not yet open for the season.
Official snow depth
Upper: 165cm
Base: 50cm
Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu is reporting 15cm of fresh snowfall at lower Toomi and Iimori areas and 30cm on upper areas.
All upper and Toomi areas are now open.
Soft Cream, Merry Land and Powder Snow courses in the Iimori area are open.
Planned lifts:
Telecabin Gondola
Alps Number 1 pair lift
Alps Number 3 pair lift
Toomi Sky Four lift
Toomi Number 1 pair lift
Toomi Number 2 pair lift
Milky Four lift
Iimori Number 1 high speed pair
Iimori Number 6 pair lift
Official snow depth
Alps: 150cm
Toomi: 50cm
Iimori: 70cm
Hakuba Happo-one:
Closed apart from the Nakiyama Number 3 triple lift at time of writing due to the gale conditions.
Planned lifts:
Official snow depth
Usagidaira: 115cm
Nakiyama: 35cm
Sakka: 15cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina reporting 20-30cm of fresh snowfall.
At 8am this morning all lifts at Cortina are closed due to the strong wind conditions.
Planned lifts:
All closed early morning.
Official snow depth
Top: 132cm
Base: 80cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
At 8am this morning all lifts at Cortina are closed due to the strong wind conditions.
Planned lifts:
All closed early morning.
Official snow depth
Tsuga-no-mori: 150cm
Maruyama: 40cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: 50cm
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Reporting up to 10-20cm of fresh snowfall.
No updates on operations yet for the morning.
Planned lifts:
Official snow depth
Upper: 100cm
Lower: 30cm
Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
Official snow depth
50cm
As of yesterday all lifts apart from Number 8 lift are operating and 8 of the 12 courses are open at Hakuba Norikura Onsen.
No further updates as yet this morning.
Hakuba Sanosaka:
Official snow depth
20cm
Part open with the Number 1 triple lift, Number 2 quad and Number 5 pair lifts operating.
Hakuba Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Monday 18th January 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 117cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 19 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 16cm (18th January) November 2015 snowfall 10cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 54cm reported on 8 days January 2016 snowfall 53cm reported on 10 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.