Hakuba Now: Wednesday 20th February 2013
- Feb 20, 2013
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 478cm
Weather overview Cloud and blue sky
Wind Light
Temperature -
Visibility Variable
Posted on Wednesday 20th February 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
The light snow continued for much of yesterday but it didn't really do much to bring us any new cm to report this morning. The mountains for the most part remained shrouded in cloud.
Hakuba Goryu wins the New Deep Snow Award this morning with 'up to 1cm' reported, easily beating the 0cm reported by the usual winner, Hakuba Cortina. ;)
It's one of those mornings when there's a bank of cloud hanging around the upper parts of the resort areas but above that there's lots of blue sky to be seen. I'd prefer to have gone up there to check for myself, but a quick look around the webcams shows grey conditions up on Happo, clearer on Hakuba 47 and fine views looking north from Hakuba Iwatake. Lots of blue sky looking at the cam up from Hakuba Minekata.
It's a nice cold morning and around -5C at the moment at village level. Hakuba 47 was recording a temperature of -12C up at 1450m as of 7am and currently it is around -8C at Usagidaira on Happo-one.
Snow is forecast to be falling again soon though today and then it seems that the snow clouds are going to be with us on and off over the next run of days possibly through until early next week. Look to Friday for potentially heavy snowfall, giving us a nice topup before the weekend.
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Official snow depths and operations @ Wednesday 20th February 2013 AM:
Hakuba Goryu:
0-1cm new snowfall reported by Hakuba Goryu
Official snow depths:
Alps daira - 315cm;
Toomi - 150cm;
Iimori - 130cm
Hakuba 47:
0cm new snowfall reported by Hakuba 47.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 255cm
Lower - 180cm
Happo-one:
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira - 280cm
Nakiyama/Shirakaba - 140cm
Sakka - 140cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 350cm
Lower slopes - 160cm
Hakuba Cortina:
0cm of new snow reported by Hakuba Cortina since yesterday morning.
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 380cm
Lower slopes - 255cm
Hakuba Iwatake:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 210cm
Lower slopes - 85cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
Official snow depth:
150cm
Hakuba Minekata:
140cm
Hakuba Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Wednesday 20th February 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 478cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 51 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (9th and 10th December, 25th January) November 2012 snowfall 47cm reported on 4 days December 2012 snowfall 185cm reported on 19 days January 2013 snowfall 149cm reported on 14 days February 2013 snowfall 97cm reported on 14 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.