Hakuba Now: Saturday 1st December 2012
- Dec 1, 2012
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 31, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 52cm
Weather overview Snow
Wind
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Temperature -
Visibility Poor
Posted on Saturday 1st December 2012 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
It started snowing in the early hours of the morning in Hakuba. We have fresh snowfall of perhaps between 3-7cm (and counting) across the valley at the moment. Wind speed is about 5m/s, it is a very grey sky out there and vision is poor with the cloud covering all nine resorts. Taking a look at the webcams though it looks like some decent snowflakes are falling up there.
The good news is that it is still snowing and the prediction for today is well into the evening with powder snowfall later on. With present temperatures of -1 and 1 degree up to the early evening, Hakuba should have a nice amount of snowfall to keep people occupied this weekend.
From today more of Happo-one is open again - they have the Kokusai No3 pair and Panorama pair lifts moving again for the weekend and also the Alpen quad lift - but other than that there do not seem to be any changes in resort operations just as yet. They will certainly be looking to open up more just as soon as they can though. For now... top bits!
The weekend of course brings traffic from many parts of Japan and the roads were a little congested on main arterial routes earlier on. Take care driving.
Resorts currently part open & operating lifts:
Happo-one:
Gondola
Alpen quad
Kurobishi No2 quad
Kokusai No3 pair
Panorama pair
Hakuba Goryu:
Gondola
No1 pair lift
Tsugaike Kogen:
Gondola
Hannoki pair
Hakuba Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Saturday 1st December 2012 Total snowfall at base so far 52cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 5 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 20cm (27th November) November 2012 snowfall 47cm reported on 4 days December 2012 snowfall 5cm reported on 1 day |
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.