Hakuba Now: Monday 1st January 2024
- Jan 1, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 20, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 4cm
Snowfall at base this season 125cm
Posted on Monday 1st January 2024 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 everyone. May it be a good one for us all.
The 'technical issues', ahem, this morning were solved with a few glasses of water, coffee and an aspirin. (Phew!)
Anyway, last year ended with some yucky rain that was, of course, not friendly to our lovely snow.
Happily, we got some fresh snow overnight. And while it is not a huge amount around base areas, Hakuba 47 is reporting up to 20cm in upper areas. But Hakuba Cortina wins the 'most snow' prize this morning - they are reporting an impressive 40cm of fresh! That sounds great. :)
Visibility seems generally limited on the mountains this morning, but better lower down with blue sky in places. So it's a bit of complicated early morning weather snapshot.
Ski area operations also remains quite complicated. It's impossible to comment on everything, but I note the top lifts at Happo-one are on hold at the start of the day and the runs down to the Nakiyama and Kokusai base areas have become unavailable.
It's nothing that a large amount of mountain-wide snow storm can't fix. But when will we get that? I wish I knew.
Hakuba Now 2023-2024 season |
Data as Monday 1st January 2024 Total snowfall at base so far 125cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 18 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 26cm (23rd December) November 2023 snowfall 28cm reported on 4 days December 2023 snowfall 93cm reported on 13 days January 2024 snowfall 4cm 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.