Hakuba Now: Thursday 24th January 2019
- Jan 24, 2019
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 18cm
Snowfall at base this season 265cm
Posted on Thursday 24th January 2019 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba. Getting on for 10am, it has been a busy morning...
I am happy to report some more good snow numbers since it started snowing last night (and nice and heavily as well at times).
First of all here is how much fresh snow that the ski resorts are reporting this morning:
Hakuba 47: 10-15cm
Hakuba Cortina: 20-30cm
Hakuba Iwatake: 30cm up top
Hakuba Happo-one: 30cm top of Riesen
I can add 18cm to my report too. Light snow was falling earlier this morning outside my place. Right now there is snow falling in some areas but even a bit of sun breaking through clouds in others. Depends on which part of the region you find yourself though generally I would say it feels more likely to be the former of those two for the moment. We are expecting it to ease off later and for most of the day tomorrow, but look out for heavy snowfall from Friday night through Saturday. Could that bring us the heaviest of the season so far? It may well be the case. I say yes please!
Wind is affecting some lifts this morning including the top lifts at Happo-one and the top part of the Gondola at Tsugaike Kogen.
Hakuba Now 2018-2019 season |
Data as of Thursday 24th January 2019 Total snowfall at base so far 265cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 27 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 27cm (22nd January) November 2018 snowfall 0cm December 2018 snowfall 112cm reported on 12 days January 2019 snowfall 153cm reported on 15 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.