Hakuba Now: Friday 21st February 2014
- Feb 21, 2014
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 345cm
Posted on Friday 21st February 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
It was cold through the day yesterday with the sun making some extended appearances, and while there was no new cm of snowfall it has kept good conditions due to the continued cold temps.
This morning there has been a light snowfall in places with Hakuba 47 reporting 2-5cm and Cortina up to 5cm.
Visibility is ok on the lower slopes but it looks like most of the runs this morning to start off with at least covered in cloud/fog with poor visibility. While it isn't snowing here in the village right now, I heard that snow is coming down on the roads around Tsugaike and some of the resorts are early on reporting snowy conditions up there. Most forecasts have us just down for cloud for the day though perhaps the odd snow shower in the first part of the day.
From tomorrow it's looking like a run of clear and sunny days. Hopefully it'll keep cold over the weekend but there's a good chance that warmer conditions will prevail early in the week and temperatures nudging into positive numbers down at base.
Should be a good weekend. After the traffic chaos last weekend, all being clear I would expect some people wanting to make up for it this coming weekend... expect popular places to be very busy! Early start recommended.
Hakuba Goryu:
Reporting 0cm of new snowfall.
Upper - 280cm
Toomi - 180cm
Iimori - 160cm
Hakuba 47:
Reporting 2cm of new snowfall at base and 5cm up top.
Upper - 265cm
Lower - 100cm
Happo-one:
Usagidaira - 260cm
Nakiyama - 105cm
Sakka - 110cm
Hakuba Iwatake:
Upper - 230cm
Lower - 90cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Tsuganomori - 350cm
Maruyama - 135cm
Kanenonaruoka - 180cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Reporting 5cm of new snowfall.
Upper - 315cm
Lower - 215cm
Hakuba Minekata:
120cm
Hakuba Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Friday 21st February 2014 Total snowfall at base so far 345cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 38 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (2nd January) November 2013 snowfall 35cm reported on 3 days December 2013 snowfall 122cm reported on 15 days January 2014 snowfall 97cm reported on 12 days February 2014 snowfall 91cm 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.