Hakuba Now: Saturday 20th February 2016
- Feb 20, 2016
- 4 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 276cm
Posted on Saturday 20th February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
A fine day again yesterday weather-wise, just getting warm and toasty once again leaving us with fairly wet and heavy snow conditions on lower areas in particular.
It is a cloudy start to this Saturday morning here in Hakuba and a temperature of +2C at 8:30am. I would expect fairly icy snow conditions early on but things should loosen up fairly quick as the temperatures rise further.
Today we are expecting a high of around 6 degrees in the village and rain/sleet to move in from the south. Different forecasts have different details but let's hope that we can avoid the 'heavy rain' that some of them threaten. Thankfully even that shouldn't be too prolonged though with snow due overnight, so hopefully I'll have good snow news in my report tomorrow morning.
The forecast over the coming week is fairly promising with a return to mid-winter like temperatures and heavy snow due around Tuesday into Wednesday.
It's the 46th Fire Festival at Happo-one tonight, starting at 7:30pm over at the Nakiyama area of the resort. Weather: please be friendly!
I have mentioned this before, but if you are new to our reports and indeed new to Hakuba, please do take a bit of time to look back at previous season reports to get a good idea of how a season usually goes.
Not just in Hakuba but in many regions of Japan, this winter season is proving to be very 'not normal' in terms of weather, temperatures and snowfall.
Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 is reporting 0cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All courses are open.
The Osaru (lower) area of the Tree Riding Zone open (Gate 3).
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba 47.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 210cm
Base: 115cm
Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu is reporting 0cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All courses except Snow Diving and Adventure are open.
The Toomi area will be open until 8:30pm tonight for 'nighta'.
Official snow depth
Alps: 245cm
Toomi: 125cm
Iimori: 125cm
Hakuba Happo-one:
Happo-one is reporting 0cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All open - including Kurobishi Off Piste Area.
Happo Banks Snow Park is also now open.
The lower Nakiyama area is open for 'nighta' every day until 9pm.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira: 205cm
Nakiyama: 70cm
Sakka: 50cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina is reporting 0cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All lifts open. All courses open except Mt Hieda Ridge, Mt Hieda 2, Mt Hieda 3, Itadaira Ridge and Giant.
The Ikenota area will be open for 'nighta' until 9pm tonight (9pm on Saturdays).
Official snow depth:
Top: 180cm
Base: 110cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
All course areas are open apart from Uma-no-se and part of Rinkan course.
Nighta at Karamatsu/Shirakaba on 20th February and 5th/12th/19th March.
Note that the top Tsugaike Ropeway only opens from spring.
Official snow depth:
Tsuga-no-mori: 215cm
Maruyama: 80cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: 80cm
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Reporting 0cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All of the Village Side is open but parts of the Mountain Side not open (Sonezawa, Dangan, Kamo 4, Five Side, View A, View B).
Winter Triathlon Festa today and tomorrow, so the cross country area is currently closed to general public.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Iwatake.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 120cm
Lower: 50cm
Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
All courses apart from Expert Course are open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Iwatake.
Official snow depth:
140cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
All of the courses are open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Sanosaka.
Official snow depth:
85cm
Hakuba Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Saturday 20th February 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 276cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 34 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 38cm (20th January) November 2015 snowfall 10cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 54cm reported on 8 days January 2016 snowfall 138cm reported on 17 days February 2016 snowfall 74cm 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.