Hakuba Now: Thursday 24th March 2016
- Mar 24, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 318cm
Posted on Thursday 24th March 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Well, well, well!
Snow started falling around mid afternoon yesterday to everyone's delight, and this morning here's what resorts are reporting as a result:
Hakuba Cortina reporting 10-15cm of fresh snow this morning.
Hakuba Goryu reporting 5cm of fresh snow on lower areas and 15cm on upper slopes.
Hakuba 47 reporting 10cm of fresh snow this morning.
Hakuba Happo-one reporting 8cm of fresh snow this morning.
So around 5cm of fresh snow at base areas, and up to 15cm higher up. Not bad at all, and people heading out for early lifts this morning will be happy. I'm off out there myself to enjoy this late season fresh...
The weather is fine too this morning. Currently hovering around 0C and a bit of an early morning mix at the moment - cloud, blue sky, sunshine, fog - depending on where you are, but with the chance of more snow today and perhaps tomorrow as well it will be interesting to see how the day turns out.
Temperatures look set to start rising once again from around Monday.
Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 reporting 10cm of fresh snow this morning.
All courses at Hakuba 47 remain open.
The Tree Riding Zone is closed.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 185cm
Base: 70cm
Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu reporting 5cm of fresh snow on lower areas and 15cm on upper slopes.
All courses open apart from Snow Diving, Adventure, Cosmo River, Sunny Way and Straight Whisky.
The Toomi area will be open until 9:30pm tonight for 'nighta'.
Official snow depth
Alps: 238cm
Toomi: 95cm
Iimori: 50cm
Hakuba Happo-one:
Hakuba Happo-one reporting 8cm of fresh snow this morning.
Happo Banks and Kurobishi Off Piste Area closed this morning.
The lower Kokusai, Shirakaba North and Central Course areas are closed; other sections of the lower areas are only part available due to insufficient snow.
Upper mountain remains all open.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira: 160cm
Nakiyama: 30cm
Sakka: 5cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina reporting 10-15cm of fresh snow this morning.
Courses open - Ikenota and Ipponmatsu.
Unfortunately, risk of avalanche this morning means some other areas need to be closed.
Nighta has now finished for the season.
Official snow depth:
Top: 150cm
Base: 70cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Uma-no-se course closed. Other courses open for part of Champion.
The top Tsugaike Ropeway is now open for spring season (extra charge required).
Official snow depth:
Tsuga-no-mori: 215cm
Maruyama: 50cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: 30cm
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Just the 5 line and Gondola lifts remain open.
Open courses: by1, Sunny and Paradise (part), South, Gezan (part)
Official snow depth:
Upper: 90cm
Lower: 20cm
Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
Open courses: Hakunori Family, Wakaguri Central, Rabbit and Wakaguri Rinkan.
Official snow depth:
50cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
Sanosaka has now closed for the season.
Hakuba Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Thursday 24th March 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 318cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 41 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 82cm reported on 11 days March 2016 snowfall 34cm reported on 4 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.