Hakuba Now: Thursday 19th December 2013
- Dec 19, 2013
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 99cm
Posted on Thursday 19th December 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Clouds remain over Hakuba this morning, but the clouds are trying to give us more snow rather than just sitting there like they were yesterday. Resorts around the valley are reporting new snowfall, albeit rather small numbers ranging from 1cm to 10cm. So a thin new layer of snow can be expected out on the slopes this morning.
Just a bit of (wet) snow down at village level and it is snowing lightly now. Snow is forecast on and off for the day and tomorrow, perhaps into the weekend. Early next week looks set to be drier and finer conditions, so all fingers crossed for the next few days.
In some resort news this morning, the Sakka quad lift will be opening from tomorrow at Happo, with all of their lifts and courses scheduled to be open and up and running from Saturday (first lifts Nakayama Number 3 and the Gondola starting at 7:30am).
With Christmas and New Year approaching, we can expect resorts to do whatever they can to open up as much as possible (obviously). Hopefully weather will co-operate and make it easy for them.
Hakuba Goryu:
Reporting 1-5cm of new snowfall.
Upper - 235cm
Toomi - 100cm
Iimori - 65cm
All courses apart from Iimori's Snowdiving and Adventure courses open.
Hakuba 47:
Reporting 5-10cm of new snowfall.
Upper - 155cm
Lower - 40cm
All courses apart from Tree Riding Zone open.
Happo-one:
Reporting 0cm of new snowfall.
Usagidaira - 175cm
Nakiyama - -cm
Sakka - -cm
Upper areas open (not Grat quad), can ski down to gondola base now. Lower areas still limited.
Tsugaike Kogen:
Tsuganomori - 222cm
Maruyama - 80cm
Kanenonaruoka - 60cm
Part open.
Hakuba Cortina:
Reporting 1cm of new snowfall.
Upper - 175cm
Lower - 95cm
Part open.
Hakuba Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Thursday 19th December 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 99cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 11 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 20cm (21st November and 15th December) November 2013 snowfall 35cm reported on 3 days December 2013 snowfall 64cm 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.