Hakuba Now: Tuesday 25th December 2012
- Dec 25, 2012
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 195cm
Weather overview Cloud
Wind
Light
Temperature -
Visibility Varied
Posted on Tuesday 25th December 2012 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Merry Christmas!
Some great conditions being reported from yesterday, especially from Otari where they got a whole lot of snow as mentioned in the report yesterday. Stories of powder pockets up to 60cm waist deep over at Cortina and Tsugaike. Very nice.
May there be many more of those this season, as no doubt there will be.
Freezing temperatures early this morning in Hakuba village with temperatures down to minus double digits overnight and about -5C here in the village now. It's a cold one, for sure.
The cloud has moved in over some parts of Hakuba with just a few glimpses of sunlight from time to time over the village. So it's cloudy in the village at the moment but snow showers possible throughout the day and snow forecast overnight into tomorrow. Beyond that it looks likely we'll see clearer conditions on Thursday and Friday.
The heavy snow had an impact on some lift operations in the valley yesterday, so on days like that it is a good idea to check official resort websites for reports if lifts close/re-open. They can be found on the resort pages within SnowJapan. As much as we would like to be able to, we can't update this page in realtime.
Anyway today we had roughly 1cm of fresh snowfall in the village and few cm higher up - 5cm+ was reported by ski patrol at Happo-one. There is just a slight wind and visibility is clear up to 1200m.
Have a fun Christmas Day wherever in the world you are...
Hakuba Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Tuesday 25th December 2012 Total snowfall at base so far 195cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 20 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (9th and 10th December) November 2012 snowfall 47cm reported on 4 days December 2012 snowfall 148cm reported on 16 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.