Hakuba Now: Tuesday 22nd January 2013
- Jan 22, 2013
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 8cm
Snowfall at base this season 321cm
Weather overview Light - but heavy - snow
Wind
Light
Temperature -
Visibility Varied
Posted on Tuesday 22nd January 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba.
Snow of the heavier variety falling this morning in the village.
Yesterday it did continue clouding over, but the sun was still out in places by mid to late afternoon. It was snowing later on and through the night though and this morning the mountains are reporting varying amounts of new snowfall.
10cm at Goryu, 15cm at Hakuba 47 and a perhaps unexpected (but then again it's Cortina) 20-25cm at Hakuba Cortina to the north. Perhaps up to 10cm or so at base levels and areas around the village.
As I said it's a heavier kind of snow rather than light and fluffy but it sure is better than anything beginning with the letter 'r' and so it's good with me. Hopefully it can stay this way though temperatures are forecast to rise to around 4C later on in the day today here in village so we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed. We might not be able to avoid it. Right now it is around +1C. Surely it will be snowing higher up though, so that's the place to be. (Isn't it always?!)
Clearer conditions are still forecast for tomorrow and Thursday and it's going to keep mild until perhaps Thursday night. From then into Friday we should see a drop and a good chance of decent snowfall which will probably go through into the weekend.
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Official snow depths and operations @ Tuesday 22nd January 2013 noon:
Hakuba Goryu:
10cm of new snowfall reported by Hakuba Goryu this morning.
Official snow depths:
Alps daira - 290cm;
Toomi - 150cm;
Iimori - 110cm
Hakuba 47:
15cm of new snowfall reported by Hakuba 47 this morning.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 220cm
Lower - 165cm
Happo-one:
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira - 210cm
Nakiyama/Shirakaba - 110cm
Sakka - 100cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 260cm
Lower slopes - 110cm
Hakuba Cortina:
20-25cm of new snow reported by Hakuba Cortina this morning.
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 315cm
Lower slopes - 190cm
Hakuba Iwatake:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 165cm
Lower slopes - 80cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
Official snow depth:
115cm
Hakuba Minekata:
100cm
Hakuba Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Tuesday 22nd January 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 321cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 34 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (9th and 10th December) November 2012 snowfall 47cm reported on 4 days December 2012 snowfall 185cm reported on 19 days January 2013 snowfall 89cm reported on 11 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.