Hakuba Now: Friday 25th March 2016
- Mar 25, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 319cm
Posted on Friday 25th March 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
More snow falling on mountain yesterday during the day. I spent a bit of time at 47 where visibility was rather limited while I was up there, and it kept pretty cold too.
Great to see the snow hanging from the trees and of course feel it under the board(s).
It's a mix of conditions this morning again. Depending on where you are in the valley you might be getting snowed on (higher up), have the sun shining down on you and/or just have lots of cloud hanging around. Generally it's mostly cloudy at the moment, but it doesn't quite seem to be able to make up it's mind. Currently -1C here at village base area.
There's a bit of light snow hanging around on some forecasts - especially for higher elevations - at times over the next few days, with others telling us to expect sun all the way through tomorrow.
Temperatures should start getting slightly higher from tomorrow, though not by too much thankfully (high of about +5C?)
Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 reporting 2cm 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 2-3cm of fresh snow this morning.
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 2cm of fresh snow this morning.
The lower Nakiyama, Shirakaba North, Central Course, Kokusai, Sakka, Olympic Course II and Kita One areas are closed.
The Nakiyama South and Shirakaba South lower courses remain open to get back down to base.
All of upper mountain courses remain all open.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira: 160cm
Nakiyama: 40cm
Sakka: 5cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina reporting 10cm of fresh snow this morning.
Courses open - Ikenota, Mt Hieda 1, Itadaira and Ipponmatsu.
Mt Hieda Ridge, Mt Hieda 1, Mt Hieda 3 open as 'self-responsibility area'.
Official snow depth:
Top: 150cm
Base: 70cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
All areas open except part of Champion.
The top Tsugaike Ropeway is now open for spring season (extra charge required).
Official snow depth:
Tsuga-no-mori: 216cm
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: 100cm
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 Friday 25th March 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 319cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 42 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 35cm 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.