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Hakuba Now: Sunday 24th November 2013

  • Nov 24, 2013
  • 2 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 25cm

Posted on Sunday 24th November 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.


There's not a whole lot to report this morning - the third day of the season for Happo! A lovely day yesterday with fine blue skies for most of the day. It is a more cloudy start to the day today, but still bright and a few patches of blue sky showing through. Temps dipped into minus numbers overnight but today we are looking at a high of around 10 degrees in the village. So it's rather mild just now.


Tomorrow - even warmer, with rain. The remaining bits of snow in the village may well get washed away with that.


Not to fear. The prospects for some significant snowfall are looking rather good from Wednesday onwards. From Tuesday look for temps dipping and then a start to another cold blast and deposit of snow from later on in the day on Wednesday. Hopefully sooner, though possibly heavy rain up front before the snow is probably.


Official snow depth numbers and operations:


Hakuba 47:

Upper - 74cm

Lower - 10cm

Lifts operating: Line E


Hakuba Goryu

Lifts operating: Gondola, Alps Number 1, Alps Number 3


Happo-one:

Usagidaira - 90cm

Nakiyama - 0cm

Sakka - 0cm

Lifts operating: Adam Gondola, Usagidaira pair, Kurobishi Number 2 quad, Hakuba Kokusai Number 3 pair, Panorama pair, Kokusai Number 1 pair. The Gondola and Kokusai Number 1 pair lifts are just for 'getting there'.


Tsugaike Kogen:

Tsuganomori - 100cm

Maruyama - 30cm

Kanenonaruoka - 30cm


Other resorts planned opening dates:

Hakuba Norikura - mid December

Cortina - 14th December

Hakuba Iwatake - 20th December



Hakuba Now 2013-2014 season

Data as of Sunday 24th November 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 25cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 2 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 20cm (21st November) November 2013 snowfall 25cm reported on 2 days




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