Hakuba Now: Thursday 22nd March 2018
- Mar 22, 2018
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 527cm
Posted on Thursday 22nd March 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba.
I have some exciting news this morning.
After snow starting to fall yesterday, there are some very interesting fresh snowfall numbers from the ski resorts. And here they are:
Hakuba Goryu: 5cm (base); 30cm (top)
Hakuba 47: up to 20cm
Hakuba Happo-one: 20-25cm
Hakuba Cortina 0-2cm
Rather curious to see the numbers from Cortina there... especially as the 'official snow depth' at Tsugaike Kogen has risen from 285cm to 330cm in one day!
Whatever the numbers, it would seem that there is a decent amount of fresh snow up there on the mountain this morning and most definitely worth checking out.
Very nice surprise.
The less good news is that it will probably be windy later on today higher up, and rain is spoiling it somewhat at lower elevations.
So it's an oddly mixed condition report this morning but I am personally going to get kitted up and check out the new snow.
Perhaps some more snow by tomorrow morning but after that we have a run of sunshine and warmer temperatures early next week.
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Hakuba Happo-one
Operating lifts:
- All lifts appear to be operating
Courses open:
- All areas open as planned
Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 360cm
- Usagidaira: 245cm
- Lower: 60cm
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Hakuba Goryu
Operating lifts:
- All lifts should be operation as normal today
Courses open:
- All courses should be open as normal (apart from Adventure)
Official snow depth:
- Top: 330cm
- Toomi: 110cm
- Iimori: 80cm
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Hakuba 47
Operating lifts:
- All lifts should be operation as normal today
- Line D usually operates only when the Gondola is not operating
Courses open:
- All main courses should be available
Official snow depth:
- Top: 330cm
- Base: 115cm
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Tsugaike Kogen
Operating lifts:
- All lifts should be operating as normal
Courses open:
- All course areas are open
Official snow depth:
- Tsuga-no-mori: 330cm
- Han-no-ki: 290cm
- Maruyama: 75cm
- Shirakaba: 235cm
- Champion: 90cm
- Oya-no-hara: 105cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka: 70cm
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Hakuba Cortina
Operating lifts:
- Some lifts may be affected by wind today
Courses open:
- Some courses closed or on hold
Official snow depth:
- Top: 255cm
- Base: 130cm
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Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field
Operatings:
- Resort remains part open
Official snow depth:
- Top: 180cm
- Base: 50cm
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Hakuba Norikura Onsen
Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from Number 1 and 7 should be operating
Official snow depth:
- 120cm
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Hakuba Valley Kashimayari
Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from Number 8 and 10 should be operating
Official snow depth:
- 120cm
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Hakuba Sanosaka
Operating lifts:
- All three lifts are operating
- Last day of the season planned as 25th March
Official snow depth:
- 85cm
Hakuba Now 2017-2018 season |
Data as of Thursday 22nd March 2018 Total snowfall at base so far 527cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 58 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 42cm (25th January) November 2017 snowfall 47cm reported on 5 days December 2017 snowfall 158cm reported on 15 days January 2018 snowfall 202cm reported on 18 days February 2018 snowfall 103cm reported on 15 days March 2018 snowfall 17cm reported on 5 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.