Hakuba Now: Wednesday 1st January 2014
- Jan 1, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 159cm
Posted on Wednesday 1st January 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba and a very Happy New Year to you all.
Did you have fun on the last evening of the year?
Snowy conditions to start off 2014. Just a light cover in village, and resorts around the valley reporting a few up to 10cm on higher elevations this morning. It's snowing now and pretty good too. As I am writing this it's coming down in style, nice big flakes too. Temperature is down there and it's a cold morning, currently around -3 degrees. Not much of a wind but the snowfall is making for generally poor visibility on the slopes.
Snow should ease off tomorrow and we might get to see clearer conditions on Friday.
You'll be seeing lots of small special events and things going on today to celebrate the New Year. The Janken-taikai (rock-paper-scissors) competition at Hakuba 47 at noon sounds particularly exciting! ;) Failing that, just get out to enjoy a first slide of the year.
Hakuba Goryu:
Reporting 1cm of new snowfall at Iimori, 1cm at Toomi and 3cm up top.
Upper - 255cm
Toomi - 150cm
Iimori - 100cm
Adventure course also now open.
Hakuba 47:
Reporting 2cm of new snowfall at base and 5cm on upper areas.
Upper - 200cm
Lower - 80cm
Happo-one:
Reporting 5+cm of new snowfall on Usagidaira, 10cm on Riesen area.
Usagidaira - 230cm
Nakiyama - 55cm
Sakka - 90cm
Hakuba Iwatake:
Upper - 190cm
Lower - 75cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Tsuganomori - 250cm
Maruyama - 100cm
Kanenonaruoka - 90cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Reporting 1cm of new snowfall.
Upper - 232cm
Lower - 125cm
Hakuba Minekata:
70cm
Hakuba Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Wednesday 1st January 2014 Total snowfall at base so far 159cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 19 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (21st December) November 2013 snowfall 35cm reported on 3 days December 2013 snowfall 122cm reported on 15 days January 2014 snowfall 2cm 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.