Hakuba Now: Saturday 26th January 2013
- Jan 26, 2013
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 15cm
Snowfall at base this season 366cm
Weather overview Snow
Wind
Moderate
Temperature -
Visibility Poor
Posted on Saturday 26th January 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
The snow continues.
It's powder all over the place this morning.
A quick round up of what the reports are reporting in terms of new snowfall since yesterday:
15-35cm at Goryu
20-40cm at Hakuba 47
45-60cm at Hakuba Cortina (including the 10-15cm they were reporting during the day yesterday)
Not bad for a day's snow!
Other resorts who don't share such information are similarly seeing jumps in their snow depths.
It's -7 degrees in village and close to -11C at Usagidaira on Happo. Winds not as prevelant as we thought they would be this morning - at 1400m on Happo an average wind speed of 0.8m/s with a strong of 2.4m/s as of 9am.
Visibility will be poor out on the slopes today pretty much everywhere and a look round the webcams confirms this. Best visibility at the low Minekata! So now fantastic mountain views today, but some fine snow conditions.
The heavy snow brings with it increasingly dangerous avalanche conditions especially out of bounds. The usual rules and common sense apply. Take care out there. There'll be plenty of untouched excellent powder on the resort runs this weekend and no need to contemplate straying.
By tomorrow the snow should beging ease off and there's a chance the sun might make an appearance as well. In the coming week clearer skies look to be on the cards more than snow.
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Official snow depths and operations @ Saturday 26th January 2013:
Hakuba Goryu:
15cm of new reported on lower slopes and 35cm on upper slopes from Hakuba Goryu this morning.
Official snow depths:
Alps daira - 310cm;
Toomi - 170cm;
Iimori - 140cm
Hakuba 47:
20-30cm of new snowfall reported at base and 40cm up top by Hakuba 47 this morning.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 255cm
Lower - 170cm
Happo-one:
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira - 240cm
Nakiyama/Shirakaba - 140cm
Sakka - 140cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 330cm
Lower slopes - 110cm
Hakuba Cortina:
45-60cm of new snow reported by Hakuba Cortina since yesterday.
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 360cm
Lower slopes - 230cm
Hakuba Iwatake:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 200cm
Lower slopes - 110cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
Official snow depth:
130cm
Hakuba Minekata:
120cm
Hakuba Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Saturday 26th January 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 366cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 36 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (9th and 10th December, 25th January) November 2012 snowfall 47cm reported on 4 days December 2012 snowfall 185cm reported on 19 days January 2013 snowfall 134cm reported on 13 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.